When we are researching ideas that could help improve our 101 things to do with a trolley we looked at Cie Willi Dorner’s project ‘Bodies in an Urban Space’ (Cie.Willi Dorner, 2007). This performance saw a group of people using their bodies in unconventional ways to create a different perspective of an urban city. This is what we are planning with our use of the library trolleys make people think about the trolleys in an unconventional self and how they can complement our sight of the library.
This work also made us start to think about what we might wear ourselves, as in the video they stand out as they are in different colours but look in uniform so that people know they are part of the same performance. This is something we are going to start looking at if we want to blend in and people not notice us or if we are in uniform and people know it’s us who are the performers.
Another practioner we looked at for our idea was DANDELION PUFF PRODUCTIONS they “seek to let everyone be young and childlike at heart through productions which use humour, make-believe and imagination to bring stories to life.” (Bonell, 2014) This is very relevant to 101 ways to use a trolley as we have had to use our childlike imagination to think of 101 things. We hope to let this imagination rub off on to our audience around the library as it can be a very serious environment. Through looking at this company it helps use get ideas on how we as group might be able to rub off on to the environment around us and maybe even get some audience participation.
Also on Monday’s lesson we started to look more practically at the trolleys and how we can use them in a safe and practical way. For example one of our 101 Things to do with a Trolley is to stack them. But we need to make sure that we can do this safely so we or no members of the public get hurt. We had a little play around and had a looks how we can do this, we took a picture of what it may looks like.
Also on Monday we went around to the different floors and looked at the best place to do our 101 Things with a Trolley without distracting other people too much, as some people do need to do their dissertations. We decided the less distracting and more discrete events may happen on the third floor so we don’t create too much commotion. But the ones that will be loud and may possibly be annoying will happen on the ground and first floor where people are more torrent to distractions taking place.
Bonell, L. (2014) Dandelion Puff Productions. [Online] London: House Theatre. Available from: http://housetheatre.org.uk/companies/dandelion-puff-productions/ [Accessed 31st March 2015].
Cie. Willi Dorner. (2007) Bodies in an Urban Space. Available from: http://www.ciewdorner.at/index.php?page=work&wid=26). [Accessed 31st March 2015].
Samantha Foster.