Connection between and among participants generated meaning for our interviewees. Through points of contact, intimacy, and connection, our interviewees felt that bonds were formed between the people in the space of FRAP. 

The points of contact were multiple:

These are just a few of the points of connection present during this project. These provided an opportunity for interfacing in many different ways, some more comfortable than others. 

There was also reference to the effects of the connections – both for the performers and for the audience – and how these connections and meanings differed. The embodied experience of participating as well as creating choreography and meaning through the performance had a connective effect on the participants. Our interviewees pondered the translatability of this process to the audience – they wondered if the audience members connected to us, the meanings, the performance, and the politics in the ways that the performers intended. 

Regardless of the desired effects, connection remained an important through-line for our interviewees.