Count One:

First presented in January 2009, Count One is a half hour theatre performance which was created with and is performed by Taylan Halici, Helka Kaski, Florence Peake and Theron Schmidt.

At the centre of Count One is an interest in how the exchange between performers and audience equally creates the event of performance. In this work we engage a simple structure to organise moments of everyday exchanges and interactions. These episodes progress to embrace elements of theatrical spectacle, inviting an array of relationships and meanings to come in and out of effect -- a playful evolutionary journey from handshake to costume and lights.

See reviews of Count One here:

http://www.theplace.org.uk/16234/resolution-review-2009/wed-28-jan.html

Count One has been shown as part of Resolution! at The Place, WHAT NOW at Siobhan Davies Studios and the SPILL Festival National Platform at the National Theatre Studios, all in London.

The Beckoning and the Escapades:

First presented in September 2008, The Beckoning and the Escapades is a three hour installation piece presented by two performers, to which spectators can enter and exit at will. It was co-created with and originally performed by Taylan Halici and Theron Schmidt, and has since been performed by Taylan Halici and Tim Jeeves.

The piece explores how an event of performance is equally co-created by the audience’s attention and the performers’ presentation, and the role of the spectacular within that meeting. Two performers move through a looped series of everyday and harmonious interactions. These exchanges are interrupted only when they introduce and remove additional environmental elements to the room they perform in. The movement of these elements; props, music, lighting; are determined by the entrances and exits of spectators to and from the performance. This constantly shifting context allows spectators to read a range of interpretations, narratives and emotional implications that are always unstable. The Beckoning and the Escapades is a work whose exact form cannot be predicted but that promises to shift through an assortment of states that are always evocative and frequently tender and delightful.

The Beckoning and the Escapades has been shown at Laban in London, and at Quake, an evening of work curated by Dance4 and Déda in Derby.

Transmutory:

First presented in June 2008, Transmutory is an installation performance lasting three hours and can be presented by 8-20 performers.

At its heart is an enquiry into the nature of the exchange between audience and performers, starting from the belief that the audience’s gaze is equally constitutive of the event of performance as the performers’ presentation. When an audience member enters the room, it cues a performer to enter the performance area and begin performing. When that same audience member leaves, that same performer will stop performing and return to the side of the space. This means there is always an equal number of people performing as there are watching; the audience will never outnumber the activated performers and vice versa. Audience members can enter and leave the performance as many times as they wish, capacity permitting (when there are as many people watching as there are performers available the work is full).

The material performed involves a number of everyday two part interactions which require one performer to instigate the interaction, and another to respond. These exist in an open structure that accommodates the constant entry and exit of performers. The material is performed according to a score which introduces spatial, temporal and physical variations throughout the three hours.

Transmutory has been presented at Laban in London.