EMOTION

EMOTION

MATERIAL

Emotion is not restricted to:

• character;
• psychological narrative;
• expression;
• representation.

It may be present through:

• sensation;
• attention;
• audience relation;
• architecture;
• social proximity;
• light;
• vulnerability;
• thought;
• bodily tension;
• presence.

PRESENCE WORK

The chair exercise trained the performer to:

• remain alive;
• think;
• notice;
• connect;
• withdraw;
• reconnect;
• share without demonstrating.

NOT PORTRAYAL

The emotional walk did not ask performers to act a named emotion.

They gathered emotional information generated by the environment.

AUDIENCE

Fear of being watched is itself emotional information.

The practice asked whether this could be acknowledged and transformed rather than concealed.