Don't duck your head! notes on audience experience in a participatory performance

  • Authors:
  • Gesa Friederichs-Büttner

  • Affiliations:
  • Technologie-Zentrum Informatik und Informationstechnik, Bremen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • SG'11 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Smart graphics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

By introducing the transdisciplinary political dance production Parcival XX-XI and exemplifying two participatory scenarios out of the play, we discuss the audience's appreciation of interactive digital media usage within the traditional frame of theatre. In this context, we developed a short-guided interview to be conducted with members of the audience after each performance, planned as an on-going evaluation. Based on 15 interviews, we present four reasons of why the audience tends to (not) duck the head when asked to participate in Parcival XXXI : Fear, fun, frustration and schadenfreude.