White Box

The White Box Project is a site-specific performance for museum and gallery space by Noemie Lafrance to be performed by 20 dancers in an enclosed white room creating various spatial arrangements that will interact with the standing audience.

The White Box Project creates a seamless transition effect between performance and real life and engages the audience to participate in subversive and subliminal ways. Set in an enclosed room in a museum or gallery space the piece erupts from within the standing audience dispersed in the room. Performers who are mingling with the crowd start to carve a distinct space with their unified actions, which grows into a more specific set of actions. The audience then sees a space being carved, transforming itself into a performance space and creating a performer/spectator relationship. Following this formation another is created that reverses the roles of who is watching and who is performing. The piece continues to evolve with new events that both blur and reaffirm the roles. The work engages audience members at various degrees of interactions in the performance worlds, also creating some of their own.