Performance Art

For my performance art proposal i had Maggie and Victor get in the sit up position on the ground. Between the two of them they had the choice in which direction they wanted to crunch to first. The idea is for them to be going in opposition to one another. Each time the Victor and Maggie sit up they have to touch hands so it makes a noise. They have the choice to clap once, twice, or three times each times they hit hands. Victor and Maggie should do this until they have created their own rhythm. When Maggie and Victor first read my proposal they were confused on what i meant by opposition. Maggie thought that i meant when she was down on the ground while Victor would be up in the full sit up position. Once that was explained they both jumped right into it. My first thought was for them to alternate between hitting hands once, twice, or three times. But Victor and Maggie took it as they could choose to do one, two, or three. But that then made sense because that was exactly how i explained it on the sheet. But it worked out fine. At first they had the initial reaction to hit both of their hands together, but then i told them that they were only supposed to hit one hand. There really wasn't a rhythm that was made mainly do to the fact that it wasn't done until there was a rhythm created. This proposal would have been more successful if Victor and Maggie committed more time to being in tune with what both of them were doing in relation to each other. This is an activity that needs time to be done correctly. It would take as long as the five minute mark before a exact and apparent rhythm was being made by both Victor and Maggie. By the end of the activity Victor and Maggie should have felt comfortable with their actions and it should have become second nature to them. If i could do this activity over again the right way, i definitely would.