Wednesday 6 October 2010

The Great Illuminated One, Strolling


















Performance for traffic light pedestrian crossing in NYC:
Requires: 1 bodysock/morph suit covered in white fairy lights.
Performer wears costume and walks to a traffic light pedestrian crossing.
When s/he arrives at the crossing, all lights should be switched off.
When the Great Illuminated One (see photograph above) lights up, so does the 'follower' - the costumed performer, by switching on the fairy lights, and begins his slow stroll across the street.
Once he reaches the other side of the pedestrian crossing, he switches off his fairy lights, pauses then walks off down the street.
Development: Several performers perform the above with appropriate costumes simultaneously at different sections of a pedestrian crossing.
Costume could be developed to have a 'red' fairy light hand which is light up separately to the rest, so that when the 'red hand/stop' sign is illuminated, so does the performers.
Therefore, with this development, so the ensemble/group performance could have different performers performing different actions at different points.
Racial Equality Development: Instead of white lights, have different performers wear multicoloured or single different coloured fairy lights, to highlight the subtle 'racial' insinuation of the 'illuminated white one'.
Perhaps performers could carry a slip of theatre lighting gel corrspondant to their costume light colour, and once they've crossed the road, could place over the 'illuminated white one' the coloured gel, perhaps with some text/message underneath.
Soon the city traffic light pedestrian crossings will be full of different coloured 'strolling one's' highlighting the variation of racial difference in New York City.

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