Day: February 5, 2018

By Scott Palmer

Scenography:

• Advocates a more active intervention and a holistic approach to design for performance in which the design of space is central – a space created for performing bodies to interact with other than against (space, object, material, light and sound)

• “the seamless synthesis of space, text, research, art, actors, directors and spectators that contribute to an original creation” (Howard, 2002: 130)

• “it is concerned with audience reception and engagement” (McKinney and Butterworth, 2009:4)

By Dorita Hannah (pp. 54-63)

• Space – whether a suspended pause, a blank area, an empty room or a limitless cosmos – performs.

• Ways of transitory events:
  -historic (epic incidents)
  -aesthetic (theatrical plays)
  -banal (daily occurences)

• “There is no space without event” (Bernard Tschumi, 1996:39)

• Architecture mutely incorporates power systems into the built environment – defining, regulating and limiting our daily practices.

By Louise Ann Wilson in conversation with Scott Palmer (pp. 63-74)

People’s identities are inextricably linked to their sense of place.
Place itself holds the memory of the people who have dwelt there.

By Scott Palmer (pp. 74-84)

• Theatre spaces by their way of nature seek to organize people and place them in specific relationships to the performers and to each other.

• Place is a practised space. Space becomes place when it develops significance by its inhabitants or users (Michel de Certeau, 1984).

• “We are spatial creatures, we respond instinctively to space… it is the apprehension of space that may be the most profound and powerful experience of live theatre although, admittedly, it is one that is most often felt subconsciously” (Aronson, 2005:1)