My second proposal is that the choreography and lights physically interact. Lets say someone quickly enters a pool of light, then the light would quickly change colour,intensity,shape,angle? If someone slowly enters a pool of light it would slowly change and etc... Or this could be vice versa!
Also we should come up with a narrative so we can actually apply idea's to something instead of me just randomly spewing out ideas...
That's a really cool idea - we could even associate sounds with the movement and the light, creating a kind of symphony of light/sound with either recorded music (more difficult) or live music.
ReplyDeleteHere's the story I think we should do:
According to Norse myth, the beginning of life was fire and ice, with the existence of only two worlds: Muspelheim and Niflheim. When the warm air of Muspelheim hit the cold ice of Niflheim, the jötunn Ymir and the icy cow Audhumla were created. Ymir's foot bred a son and a man and a woman emerged from his armpits, making Ymir the progenitor of the Jotun. Whilst Ymir slept, the intense heat from Muspelheim made him sweat, and he sweated out Surtr, a jötunn of fire. Later Ymir woke and drank Audhumbla's milk. Whilst he drank, the cow Audhumbla licked on a salt stone. On the first day after this a man's hair appeared on the stone, on the second day a head and on the third day an entire man emerged from the stone. His name was Búri and with an unknown jötunn female he fathered Bor, the father of the three gods Odin, Vili and Ve.
When the gods felt strong enough they killed Ymir. His blood flooded the world and drowned all of the jötunn, except two. But jötnar grew again in numbers and soon there were as many as before Ymir's death. Then the gods created seven more worlds using Ymir's flesh for dirt, his blood for the Oceans, rivers and lakes, his bones for stone, his brain as the clouds, his skull for the heaven. Sparks from Muspelheim flew up and became stars.
One day when the gods were walking they found two tree trunks. They transformed them into the shape of humans. Odin gave them life, Vili gave them mind and Ve gave them the ability to hear, see, and speak. The gods named them Ask and Embla and built the kingdom of Middle-earth for them; and, to keep out the jötnar, the gods placed a gigantic fence made of Ymir's eyelashes around Middle-earth.
Some highlights of this story:
ReplyDeletetwo elements in contrast - fire and ice
icy cow = hilarious, we could do funny stuff with this
the creation of humans from parts of others could be really interestingly expressed in dance form, like the man appearing from the stone
the murder of Ymir, and the flowing of his blood
Sparks flying up and creating stars
a fence made out of eyelashes also cool
My first thought was a stage divided in two extremely distinct pools of light red and blue. each interacts with each other through two entities represented in each pool. this creates some sort of chaos or something.
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