ABSTRACT
This chapter examines an evolving methodology, which unintentionally drew out the potentially conflicting willfulnesses of agents involved in any cultural mapping process, through notions of identity, collaboration, performance, the public and the corporate, the official and the vernacular histories. Dream-work 2009-2014 was the sixteenth performance work made by Bodies in Flight, a UK based performance company formed in 1990 by choreographer Sara Giddens and writer Simon Jones. Dream-work began with the commute: many people's everyday experience of moving habitually from home to work, from a personal place to a public realm. As an initial strategy, Dream-work aimed to explore in this first iteration the commuter's everyday experience by combining the walkers own embodied memories and immediate sensations with the audio technology's capacity to mix happenchance and prepared sounds. It thus opens up an imaginative parallel space-time within which to speculate on that experience from inside the space-time of the commute itself: out-standing standing-within.
