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 * Group: Lexy, Helen, Jasmin, Martez, Anthony, and Vannary**



//(The spot for the audience)// //(The entrance to our spot)// //(Second entrance)// //(The spot)//
 * Site: The side of The Marketplace of Design building**

When looking for a spot, my group and I searched into each hidden crevice in hopes of finding a piece of dancing heaven within these city streets. Up and down JFK, we thought about perfuming in front of murals, under bridges, in the middle of a street, in small patches of grass, and run-down little alleyways. None of those spots compared to the secret hiding place I shared with my group. Across from the PECO building is the Marketplace of Design Building and a parking garage. When you walk through the overpass, you see a colorful mural to your left. As you continue, you walk through a path of metal overpasses and you are exposed to the concrete slab of ground right off of the building. To play with this spot, we are adding levels to our performance by using the steps to the parking garage and the second floor of the actual parking lot. This concrete jungle is perfect because of it's open, yet stuffy layout. This area will allow the audience to really become part of our performance. How exciting!
 * Lexy:**

We walked all around and finally, with ten minutes to spare we found our site, we all agreed that this was the place. You walk through the fashion designing place on Market between 23-24. Then you are lead to this alley with a concrete railing. There is also a concrete staircase that starts at a parking garage and ends one the same landing. The alley starts off with a construction hallway. It reminds me of a runway photo shoot. We are thinking our entrance is going to be like that. This site was a great pick because I think it really shows everybody a stereotype of kids goofing off in the street like "hood rats". Hopefully when we show everybody our piece we will show them the opposite.
 * Helen:**

The site that we chose for our Art In The Open performance is a short alley that leads to a parking lot. The site is located near the Institute of Art near 21st and Market. When I first entered the site the first thing that I noticed was the artwork. I noticed that there was a mural was full of colors and it gave me a really good impression. After the artwork there is a metal contraction hallway. We chose to use this part of the area because we thought it would be good way to make sound and incorporate movement into our performance. Past the metal hall there is a path that leads to a parking lot with stairs. We thought that this would be a good way to enter ad exit and kind of grab the audience's attention. Overall the site is really perfect for our performance. There is a lot of space for the 6 of us to move around and I think that it is really different from all of the other sites that other groups chose.
 * Jasmin: **

The site that we chose I like because we have a lot of space and objects that we can use to make sound or impact our performance in a good way. There are very different types of structures and it will be easy for everyone to see, we can move around a lot and we can all do different things at the same time without people having to look away from one of us doing one thing.
 * Martez: **

It was quite demanding for our group to find the right spot of our site that we had to choose for the Art Opening Festival. We walked all around for about 5 minutes or so until we came across our first stop to this little house that was on 23rd and Arch street, but we decided to move along and find a better opening space. We walked for another 10 minutes or so, and finally one of group member (Lexy) thought of this one place where it is quite near and on the way to the 30th street station. As we enter this place on Market between 23-24, the first thing I saw was these colorful murals that gave me a good impression of and also leads our way to this alley with a concrete railing. We knew right away that this place would be our site for the Opening Art Festival. It gives us as much spaces as we need to move around and as well as for the audience to get a better view to see us perform.
 * Vannary: **