| Name | Kate Dawson, Paige Cawkwell, Jessica Smith, Rebecca Walker. |
| Kate: katelyn_1207@hotmail.com
Paige: paigepinkie@yahoo.co.uk Jessica: jess_smith1991@yahoo.co.uk Rebecca: rebecca.a.walker@hotmail.co.uk |
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| Contact Phone No. | Kate: 07963130214
Paige: 07516418371 Jessica: 07526869637 Rebecca: 07791781778 |
| Title of your Project | Steep! |
| Please describe your proposed work in no more than 50 words | |
| Our group performance has been developed around Steep Hill, focusing on the effect that climbing Steep Hill, numerous times, has on your body. We will each take on different roles including a doctor, mathematician, and fitness instructor during the performance. Our aim is, between us, to travel the equivalent of the circumference of Lincoln’s border; 20.5 miles. | |
| Tell us what you plan to do and provide a sketch of the ideas behind the work (250 words) | |
| As a group, we decided that our performance will be both time and task based. The piece will last for four hours, with a 10-15 minute warm-up/warm-down at the beginning and end. This will, hopefully give us long enough to show the physical struggle of getting up the hill and to travel our chosen distance.
Our task will be to attempt to travel an equivalent distance to the circumference of Lincoln, 20.5 miles, by climbing up and down Steep Hill, whilst observing the effects on our bodies such as blood pressure and heart rate. We chose to use the circumference of Lincoln as our aim because, as well as being relevant to Steep Hill itself, we believe that, between the four of us, it is an achievable distance to cover. We will each take on different roles including a doctor, who will measure everyone’s blood pressure/heart rate every 15-20 minutes, a mathematician, who will record the distance travelled, a climbing instructor, in charge of safety and climbing advice, and a fitness instructor, in charge of motivation and fitness tips including warm-ups and warm-downs. Therefore, each person will have their own individual task to complete, as well as the group task of climbing the hill. This will not only give us all a separate achievement but will also assist our group task. We hope to change not only our own opinions of Steep Hill, but also those of the general public. Our performance will be in a live format, rather than filmed, because the performance’s objective is to highlight the hill’s struggle in a way, which will hopefully interact with the audience. Something that, we believe, can only be captured and experienced as a live audience member. |
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| Tell us about your target audience, and how your work will interact with them (150 words) | |
| Our target audience is both the local community, i.e. those who have both lived with and experienced the hill for many years, and also visitors to Lincoln, who have, perhaps, just dealt with the struggle of the hill for the first time. This is because these people will have different outlooks on the hill’s steep gradient and will, hopefully, be most interested in our performance.
Our work will directly interact with the audience as, for the locals, the hill is part of their everyday life and to see it being used as a performance space will automatically draw them in. As for visitors to Lincoln, not only will Steep Hill act as a tourist attraction, because of its character and history, it will also be seen as an interesting and unusual site for performance.This task based performance will directly interact with the audience because, as performers, we will be moving around and performing alongside any members of the public who have chosen to venture up Steep Hill. |
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| When and where do you propose to present your work (location, date and time) | |
| Our performance will be a live piece performed on Wednesday 2nd May, starting at 11am. It will last for four hours, taking place on Steep Hill. | |
| Provide a project timetable detailing key targets and actions between now and the presentation of your work. Include Permissions, Materials, Health and Safety checks where applicable (250 words) | |
The tasks that now need to be completed are:
We will not need to gain permission to perform our piece because Steep Hill is a public thoroughfare. The main health & safety checks we need to make will be surrounding the tasks we undertake, including making sure these tasks are safe to complete on such a steep incline. We also need to ensure these tasks present no danger to us and members of the public, especially if we have any adverse weather conditions. These risks will all be carefully evaluated in our Risk Assessment. |
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| List the equipment and materials you will need to deliver your project (and how you will source them). | |
We will aim to source equipment/materials from friends, relatives or from our own possession, to decrease cost, however, if this is not possible, we will buy any other materials from the appropriate stores. |
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| Give details of your project budget (though be aware that there is no Module budget so any expenses will, unfortunately, have to be borne by you alone). | |
| The cost of any material we do not have in our own possession and cannot acquire from friends/relatives. | |
| Audience suitability: is there anything in your work we may need to make audiences aware of (e.g. Swearing, nudity, flashing lights etc)? | |
| Our performance is suitable for all audience members and does not include any inappropriate material. | |
| Include a brief artist’s statement that describes you and your work (100 words). | |
| We are a group of four drama students creating a Site Specific Performance on Steep Hill. We aim to show the mental and physical struggle of travelling up and down the hill. We will do this through walking up and down at different speeds, repetitively to really put across the struggle and strain that the hill puts you under and aim to cover the same distance as the circumference of Lincoln. The idea is to document our struggle medically, by testing blood pressure and heart rates and mathematically by calculating speed, time and amount of times travelled up and down the hill. | |
| Provide any images, plans, maps or other materials that support your proposal. | |
Our performance will take place on the steepest part of Steep Hill, a section that, according to Google map, is 164 feet (50metres) long and has a gradient of 1 in 6 (see highlighted section on map)    
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