(Audience &) Performers

“Audience and Performers observes two individual performances whose cause and effect are intertwined. The preliminary score of Audience gave rise to the score of Performers. Performing Performers works as a practical score for Audience. There are five characters in Audience, who look like an audience, but who are, in fact, performers rehearsing through a reading and learning of Performers, as if it is their score. Although I said just now that they are not an audience, they are, in fact, an audience of Performers. On the other hand, there are five other counterpart characters in Performers (a dancer, a video installation on a stage, sound, a choreographer, and a camera person) who are positioned inside (the dancer, the video installation, and the sound) and outside (the choreographer and the camera person) of the stage; and who are either part of the finished outcome (the dancer, the video installation, and the sound) or part of the process (the choreographer who is still choreographing and the camera person who is recording the performance), coexisting in the same space and time. The camera person in Performers is recording Audience, which is either being rehearsed, or is an observation of Performers.”