Abstract:
The research seeks to further understand and reflect on the following question: what can be uncovered through my choreographic practice in relation to facilitating an audience feedback system? The significance of this research is perhaps in regards to how choreographers, artist and performers can gain feedback from their audience members on their work without the use of a professional critic. Acknowledging normative systems of reviews and critiquing, this research aims to explore what it can mean to facilitate feedback systems for audience members of all abilities and levels of education to participate in. This research has come to serve what I see is a gap for emerging choreographers gaining connection between their own audience members and their work. *Subject to Change was the work used to facilitate the feedback system during this research. Through a deconstruction and the self and analysis of being a researcher and choreographer, using Judith Butlers (1997) theory of performativity I have come to understand that all my actions were in relation to each other. Understanding the language that has guided me throughout this process and the changes I made to not only my appearance but my speech using Jacques Derrida’s theory (1974, 1985, 1991) of differénce, has allowed for an insight into what it means to be wearing two vastly different hats simultaneously. This research serves to enable the next stage in facilitating feedback between audience members and artist. It does not pose to replace the role of the critic. Rather supplement the change that is coming, slowly but surely.