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The One Square Foot project

Abstract The One Square Foot project is a collaborative investigation concerned with the making of ‘new work’. It places the ‘creative actor’, rather than the playwright, at the heart of generating material for performance and addresses the question of dramaturgical structure within interdisciplinary performance as one of its key concerns. It uses the term ‘creative actor’ to refer to any performer involved in the making of ‘new work’, regardless of his or her disciplinary background.1 The project locates the ‘site’ for generating material for performance spatially within a chosen place on planet earth—one square foot in dimension. Each square foot is chosen by the ‘creative actors’ and artists involved in making the work because of its autobiographical resonance for them, as well as for its historical and/or political associations. For example, one of the square feet chosen as a starting point for making a solo piece of ‘new work’ marked the very spot in a small alleyway where the ‘creative actor’ making the performance heard that he would be a father for the first time. In the final performance of this piece, images related to this autobiographical moment were interwoven with others derived from an archival document dating from the Second World War, in which it becomes clear that a father has lost a son.