Our participants all discussed community, albeit in different ways. Their references to community provide insight into how one might create community via Four Rehearsals and a Performance, but also via shared goals, shared space, and shared connections. 

AUMI offers a unique approach to creating community. The community that AUMI brings together is not one that is perfect or always comfortable. Many of our participants provide insight, though, into how moments of fear and anxiety forced them to reckon with their notions of community and connection, to work to dismantle their assumptions about interaction and embodiment. 

As we discussed on the "Theory/Method" page, we found that the discontinuities of experience provided insight into this experience much more than the similarities. For example, one of our participants discussed their experience of community during FRAP. They tied community to their understanding of home, where community was less connected to place, and more focused on the people in a given space. More importantly, community was about just “being yourself.”  However, another participant discussed community in a very different way, saying that, "Community is a practice, it isn’t a thing. It’s elusive, because when it feels comfortable, it might not be feeling the same way to other people… [it] is active, flexible, and changing over time. …Once it’s achieved…there is a danger of community falling so in love with a particular version of itself that it becomes exclusive." This participant believe that in any space, including that of FRAP, that members should be always attentive to this danger. If ‘community’ fails to change and adapt with every new member, it can be detrimental because "when community feels like home – its a sign of danger…," when it is "protected to the expense of other community members.”

By creating an event that invited others to actively participate, FRAP provided space to create new kinds of community, as well as provided space to discuss what community can mean to individuals sharing a common space.