My First Proper Post (Not Hello World).

So we’ve started the site specific performance module now, and as I understand we have to perform whatever we like, wherever we like, as long as it’s both inspired by and within the confines of Lincoln. Excellent.

The tutors seem pretty set on us finding the site first, so we’ve all been traipsing around Lincoln looking for obscure and history filled places that might be nice to perform in for a while. Surprisingly, there’s been a few. Some are worryingly obvious like the cathedral or the town centre- I don’t want to get marked down due to unoriginality, but they are great performance spaces. However, there are places such as the Arboretum, the sculpture park, Steep Hill etc. that are proper nice and a tad more obscure.

The only problem with choosing a site before anything else is that the performance has to have some relationship with the place. The performance needs to be enhanced by the place, which sounds super cheesy aswell as a tall order. Thankfully there’s an absolute ton of history in Lincoln, in many ways. You could go to its proper old history (Lincoln was conquered by the Romans in 48AD), or it’s more recent history, or its religious and culutural histories.

Regardless, there’s a lot of options and we have to find a way to tie everything together. It’s gonna be difficult, be it’ll be worth it.

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