FIVE-MINUTE SELF-PRESENTATION

FIVE-MINUTE SELF-PRESENTATION

TASK

Create a solo lasting no more than five minutes, concerning the performer, allowing audience encounter, using any medium and without obligatory linear biography.

POSSIBLE MATERIALS

Movement, speech, song, object, stillness, action, silence, architecture, factual information and fiction.

NOT A FINISHED PIECE

Presentations were resource material to cut, reorder, isolate, repeat, combine or discard.

CORE QUESTIONS

• What is the core?
• What is the material?
• Why this material?
• What is the intention?
• What does the audience need?
• What is excess?
• What can be removed?

IDENTITY

A self-presentation need not explain a whole person. Small fragments can establish difference, contradiction, humour, memory, social context or bodily trace.

PRIVACY RULE

Do not preserve private participant examples.