This weekend was my first ImpulseTraining workshop for the year. ImpulseTraining is a postmodern acting/life training that I have devised over the last ten years. This year I teach on Sundays at Pullenvale, a leafy acreage suburb in Brisbane. We work 10am till 1pm, followed by lunch and then a 'by-invitation' complimentary generative writing/performance session 1-5pm for emerging writers/contemporary performers.
Yesterday, as a direct result of our (PP) generative session last weekend, we used the garden to perform. This was something we had talked about, however because of heat, rain etc had always remained inside (except some evenings).
Each participant was invited to find a space anywhere on the 4.5 acres, either inside or out, to perform their improvisation, based on scores created earlier in the day. They were invited to allow the space to impact on the work. They had 30 minutes to create the work.
The results were very strong and made clear to me how important space is, and how space can actually dictate hugely the content as well as process of the work. I think that this was deeply emphasized in the Process Project when the three of us went to three different spaces to create a reflection on the day with Peter (landscape gardener) and we came up with such different products. Space influenced us enormously.
Because of this, i was encouraged to commit to a changed emphasis on space in ImpulseTraining. This idea has been growing for several years, yet it obviously needed a stimuli to get it going. We have been talking about open performance spaces here in Pullenvale, yet this was the first time we had actually used the various 'outside rooms'. Jung would call this syncronicity.
We will continue to develop these ideas, and we are now planning to have a Pullenvale Performance in June. I want to deeply thank all four of you: Liz, Dan, Nikki and Brian for being such a vibrant team. The Process Project is having a direct impact on my work.
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