One Born Every Minute

Statistics indicate that in the UK, one child is born every minute. In order to demonstrate this more fully, we took a balloon and timed six minutes on a clock. This resulted in six balloons being blown up per minute to represent six children being born.

As a group we have considered using this task throughout the entirety of the piece (thirty minutes in total) resulting in thirty balloons being blown up throughout the event. This experiment was just for the purposes of rehearsals.

In addition, as well as using the balloons to indicate the birth rates in the UK, we aim to use the balloon’s to demonstrate death statistics as well, by bursting the balloons.

Please see below a video of our experiment: