Can a tour be run in an open structure?

Background to my issue to the event wednesday 26th Oct 2011. City, crowdy busy city, competitive, being on time, reaching to the top floor, Artsadmin, being early or being late. Whenever starts it's the right time. Improbable, Fuel

Hello!?

Waiting time, waiting room, singing a song in my head to clam me down.

How to tour better?

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My question to the group: Can a tour be run in an open structure?

Touring is very boring sometimes, it seems to me it is just showing your show or building your audience. Dry! Things are already complete, works/productions are very well-prepared/made/constructed/set out, too perfect, lack of real and life. Not good enough, audience's demand are high, especially the audience who are in the arts industries. Possibility: How to tour better is to run a tour in an open structure.

What I mean by an open structure, it's where the work is incomplete. Work is continuously changing, yes, durational, and we don't know what to expect, what it is going to happen. Both artists and the audience do not know what the event is going to be. Touring theatre doesn't make sense to me at all, touring theatre doesn't apply to what I want to tour. My question will be better if I put it as: how can you tour a show/work in which nobody know what it's going to become?

If I do a tour or organise a tour, I would like audience not to know what it is going to happen.

Always being an outsider of everything, by chance meeting an outsider (Cathy) from Canada, we had a great conversation about many things that are happening and not happening in the arts, UK and Canada, - dance, theatre, performance arts, performing arts/live art, or the unknown territory, durational arts, "no plan" for a tour, tour with friends/ the local communities - whoever comes are the right people, an open structure.

I am very interested in hearing more about Improbable's tour of open space in 2012.


Li E Chen