goggles and enters an unseen space. One reviewer, Myronny (2016), describes
‘I am deliberating making my
his experiences:
disability part of the movement,
‘I feel an immediate sense of anxiety as
not because I want to make a
my most reliant forms of communication and being connected to others have
statement about disability, but
been removed. I am aware of movement happening around me, but I have no idea
because it is part of my body and
what. I keep reminding myself that I am in a show and am completely safe, and after
therefore part of my dancing.’
what seems like an eternity of waiting (which in reality would have been minutes – I think), a hand takes hold of mine and
Then she squeezed my hand and could feel
leads me away from the comfort of my seat.
her being led away. I was no longer a ‘we’. I walk with confidence and trust in the
Then a stranger’s hand took mine. I had
stranger but the second they release me,
immediate and complete trust in that hand.
I stop dead in my tracks. Suddenly, my
I still don’t know who it was. Or who any of
footsteps are much slower and smaller.
the hands and arms and bodies I felt were,
My hands are outstretched in front of me
but one woman drew a smiley face on my
as I come into contact with numerous
hand and I’m sure we both laughed loudly
other audience members. We touch faces,
because it was finally something we
we hold hands, I feel a wedding ring on
could understand.’
one person, and another has large, coarse
- Aussie Theatre4
hands. I am creating stories for these people I know very little about. There is a
My drive in the choreography was to
sense of timelessness while this is happ-
create experiences that were subjective
ening and it feels like I am in another world.’
and internalised; to allow for accidental
- My About Town3
meetings even though you didn’t know who was touching you. Where you felt
Another reviewer, Peard, A (2016) describes:
out of control, isolated and yearned for human connection. When once you met
‘Unexpectedly scary, especially as we were
someone through touch, you realised that
not sure what was happening around us.
in fact there is a whole language, an entire
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