Flying audiences up in the air
Something in the Air (2009). Alex Harvey, Tina Koch, Charlotte Mooney in their pods. Arun Ghosh plays clarinet. Photo: Duncan Elliot
Something in the Air, our co-production with the fabulous aerial company Ockham’s Razor, was a large scale exploration and celebration of the kinaesthetic sense. Having taken audiences into the water and onto trampolines, the only way was up! Sat in specially-made seats hovering above ground, the audience experienced swinging, bouncing and twisting as the performers flew, twirled and sang around them. Here we discovered what we coined “sympathetic movement” where doing a smaller version of what the aerialists were doing heightened your own experience.