Breathe

Mission Statement:

Breathe aims to create sensory performative experience in interactive environments, situating spectators in unsettled spaces between the public and private.

Our work continues to be informed by our practical and theoretical explorations into the momentary encounter that occurs between performer and spectator, often questioning the relationship between strangers.

Our Practice:

‘The encounter’ and the implications of a one-to-one exchange between witness and performer is a running theme in our work. We believe that in the shared intimacy of human exchange, and in the questioning of location (both physical and metaphorical) that is central to our work, we can engage our audience in a reflective dialogue that continues beyond the boundaries of the event.

We are as individuals fascinated with meeting people and engaging in something with someone that can be viewed as private and intimate. Our work has always kept the audience and their experience central. We want to meet or at least have an ‘encounter’ with our audience. We want the work to feel generous and light like you’ve been tickled, an experience that you revisit and brings a smile in its absence.

We create this type of work because it asks something from us as performers and through the desperate need to meet with our audience it asks something from them too. The two parties meet and something is exchanged, we share the space and we share in the experience. We need them to be present, to be in the experience, to meet us in the middle.