Henri Lefebvre thinks anything can have a rhythm including our bodies, ‘our biological rhythms of sleep, hunger and thirst, excretion and so on are more and more conditioned by the social environment and our working lives.We train ourselves, and are trained, to behave in a number of ways.’ Even cities can have rhythms for example the traffic lights have a sequence to follow. Noises in a city can be like a musical score. Everybody has their own individual rhythms.This relates to our performance as in our performance we are responding to sound. Originally we chose quite contemporary music for our performance to respond to however we realise now that we don’t have to use conventional styles of music to respond to we could even just use sounds like how the sounds of a city can make a musical score.

In Erving Goffman’s Presentation of self in everyday life he states, ‘in Ichheiser’s terms, the individual will have to act so that he intentionally or unintentionally expresses himself and the others will in turn have to be impressed in some way by him’. He thinks that we perform everyday in our everyday lives and people put on a ‘performance’ particularly in different social situations. For example, you would ‘perform’ differently to a friend as you would to your boss at work. In site specific performance some performers find it strange as they are used to performing in a conventional performance space, usually a theatre. However if we think about performance being an everyday occurrence and something we do constantly it shouldn’t actually feel that strange performing in an unconventional space.

Red

• Also known as Muladhara
• most dense colour
• slowest of all the wave lengths
• most stimulating colour
• pulls the retina forward so all our energy and attention is focused outward.
• it commands attention, which is why we have red for stop signs and traffic lights. (we could use red in our performance to ‘command’ the performance.)

Orange

• lower end of the visible light spectrum
• colour of vitality and strength
• located in the pelvic area, area of gut feelings and wisdom.

Yellow

• colour of sunshine
• personal power
• colour of youth, new beginnings, birth and rebirth.
• wise and knowledgeable

Green

• colour of love
• transforms your ego
• become more loving and compassionate
• heart center
• colour of growth, life and balance.

Blue

• associated with heaven
• pure, soothing, calming and healing
• peaceful, imagine lying on the ground looking up at a blue sky. How do you feel? (we could incorporate this in our performance.)

Indigo

• colour of wisdom
• also called royal blue
• third eye Chakra
• deep inner knowing
• colour we associate with night time
• bridge between heaven and earth

Violet

• crown Chakra colour
• colour of spirituality
• shortest wavelength
• highest vibration of the colours
• inner sense of wholeness
• peace and tranquility
• colour of magic

Each Chakra has an image for our performance we could paint the images creating a pattern of the Chakra colours. We could also use projection and have a voice over explaining the different Chakra’s.

http://www.chakra-anatomy.com/chakra-colors.html

After performing five minutes of our performance, we have decided to develop for next week, we could record ourselves doing our performance with the paint or glow sticks, so we will know early on if our idea works. We thought each person could have their own colour representing their ‘characters’ for example I responded to the music in a more sad way than angry way so I could go for a light blue to represent my character as in the dark you won’t see my facial expressions. As our original idea was reflection we could have both pairs responding in the same way to show reflection however we would prefer it to be a personal response so the audience can see how people respond differently to sound. Using the paint will bring in colour making it more visually entertaining and eventually the paint will outline the body and make a canvas. If we decide to do the performance in pairs the colours could mix together creating a colourful effect.