From the original Festival website:

Since her last appearance at The National Review of Live Art, Sam Rose has embarked upon a two-year research project that investigates intimacy and the senses in one-to-one performance. She has also developed and extensively toured two new works: Melting Point and  A Bed of Roses.

For the National Review of Live Art 2010, Sam will be performing Melting Point – a sensual and seductive one-to-one performance that offers a series of whispers, gentle caresses, and sumptuous flavours.

Exploring remembrance, the transient nature of experience, and the moment, Melting Point combines autobiography with universal themes of memory, loss, and the passing of time.

Sam will be wandering throughout the Arches, looking for somebody to join her. She may ask you to sit with her for a while and to ‘taste the experience’.

Will you accept her invitation?

To accompany her performance, Sam will also be delivering Melting Point: A shared encounter, a shared exchange, a shared account – a collaborative performance lecture between Sam Rose and Annette Foster that attempts to communicate and document a shared account of the experience of Melting Point from the point of view of both performer and audience members.

Re-create, Re-member, Re-collect.

Melting Point: A shared encounter, a shared exchange, a shared account is part of ongoing research that explores new strategies for the documentation and archiving of one-to-one performance.

Textual documentation, performative actions, and visual materials for performance lecture were created in collaboration with Annette Foster.

Sam is currently a part time lecturer at New College Nottingham, and has recently finished a part time MRes Theatre and Performance at Plymouth University (practice as research).

Melting Point was supported by Method Lab 2008, The Green Room, Manchester.