Recently I was reading Brandon La Belle's book with the title "Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Every Day Life". I have added a part of the book on Radio Ballet and two videos of performances in the Leipzig railway station in Germany.
"Structured as a radio transmission of pre-recorded voice and sounds, the work invites listeners to participate in a series of unified actions and gestures to take place in the railway station at a designated time. Participants were asked to bring portable radios and earphones, so as to tune in the radio broadcast while at the station, and to follow the instructions spoken by the broadcast voice. The performance essentially requested participants to occupy the station, appearing as an unidentified collective, and brought together through the invisible transmission, each participant listening and responding to the given instructions, which asked them to dance to music, to hold their hands as if begging, to lie down on the floor, to look up, to look down etc. Through such actions, the Ballet was specifically designed against recent laws passed by the local government, which enable police to remove any person loitering in the station without purpose. The identifiable gestures of the loitering body were into play through the Ballet, from the homeless sleeping on the ground, the one begging for spare change, others just sitting or standing around - such bodily appearances were enacted as intentional yet ambiguous signs of criminality as an attempt to rupture their signifying meaning".
