silent treatment

We finally got around to playing with ideas for our performance at the end of last night"s session. We got into "pockets of 3" and I had the overwhelming realisation that I wanted to play a listening role! I wanted to be the ears that overhear all kinds of snippets of conversation and "make shapes". i didn't really know what I meant by "making shapes"...just that they would be some physical rather than verbal response to what was going on around me.
Watching the other "pockets" there was a really good interaction when a 'baton" was passed amongst one group to decide who was speaking.I liked this visually as well as it obviously being a useful tool for creating verbal dynamics.It also seemed a useful way of creating a focus and clarifying (at least to ourselves) that a performance was taking place.I think this kind of device will be important if we are to be amongst the audience...
This group also had someone with a really compelling speaking voice which is a real gift in that it meant I could listen to whatever she chose to rattle on about for as long as she liked: much as one of our fab speakers this evening had suggested that we dived in and didn't rely on our individual skills but tried something new...dancers singing or whatever...certainly in our "pocket" we agreed that skills were important to avoid a "bad shit performance"
I woke up this morning and had a flash that what I wanted to play was a street artist. For some reason my first vision was that i would spend the whole performance filling in a huge orange chalk square. Then I thought about those creepy living statues..especially those ones that remind me of the child catcher when they hand out lollies when someone gives them money. I thought maybe being "handed the lollie" might be a bit like being handed the "baton" as a sign amongst ourselves at least that a scenario was taking place. Chucking money in my hat could be a sign that someone wants to perform...well you get the idea...please can I be a ghastly living statue?