"Gaze"

We have explored and come to the understand that eye contact enhances and alters a lot of boundaries within a performance setting, because of its intimate nature eye contact can make us feel complex emotions. By creating a participatory platform for our audience we hope that the gaze that we experienced in our previous explorations would come apparent to the chosen audience member. On self-explorations during our choreography lab, we discovered that simple eye contact is powerful enough to evoke and tap into people’s emotions, these emotions varied between all our participants. With this last exploration we aimed to enhance and then brake down the barriers of a performance that we explored in the previous exercises, we aimed to break down the barrier of pretence that often can found on both sides of a performance setting, namely between the audience and the performer. 



By Michelle Morgan and Joanne Schwarz