Week One 

Originally,our site specific performance was going to be in the disabled loo by student services, but due to complications we were unable to perform it there. Our first site looked like this:           

and from this we got a feeling of entrapment and all the things that people do behind closed doors. Our group started to work with the very structural build of the loo and how it made us feel. We gathered up the emotions of isolation, mistakes, routine and darkness. After finding out we had to change our site, we searched for a location that had the same themes. We found that the fire exit by the side of the school contained these emotions and more. We explored our site and found that it was very square and ordered; the concrete floor was set in rectangular patterns, the windows were in blocks of four and the railings above were symmetrical to each other. 

The primary function of this site is a space for students and staff to cue up if there is a fire. It is also a safe exit route to the communal fire exit location. I noticed that the fire exit signs and door had been neglected and almost forgotten about. We used this fact in our movement for our piece. We started to walk in direct lines, responding to the straight beams above us and the lines of the patterned ground. Our group decided to base our piece around fire and the feeling of being boxed in, as the site gave me the feeling of being enclosed in a large, metal box.