Exercise 1 had students in the courtyard at the back of the theater space carrying full glasses of water very slowly and carefully. When one spilled their water, they had to wait for someone to refill their glass before they could begin moving again.

Exercise 2 (a Marina Abramovic technique) had students walking backwards slowly out of the rehearsal room and eventually onto the street in front of the QFT using a mirror to guide their movements.

The final exercise saw students lined up between the Law School building and the Graduate School for a 15-minute slow motion walk.

Each exercise was designed to provoke students to think about some of the fundamentals of performance art, in terms of concentration, endurance, and generosity (to each other and to audiences). The work that we did foregrounded the role of the body within this artform and demonstrated how the simplest movement can transform an everyday scene or object into art and the most mundane space into a canvas for art practice.

Informal feedback from the session has been hugely positive; they were delighted to have this opportunity to engage with visual and body art methodologies and to work with a professional who brings vast skills and experience.