Monday
After exploring the scene with Ismene last week, we found that there was a paragraph that we all agreed could have some choral movement added to it. We wanted to explore the realistic of what Ismene is trying to get Antigone to understand; that dying is too big of a consequence just for wanting to bury a brother that neither of them had known very well.
Before this Ismene has refrained from giving any explicit details about what is to happened, but at this point I think that Ismene has had enough of Antigone being so at ease with the idea of dying that she tries to experiment with telling Antigone the details of what will happen to her if she does go through with the burial.
We explored the lines that could be use and we came up with 3 main ones:
• "They'll seize us with their thousands arms"
• "...their great clean hypocrites' hands, their loutish stare."
• "And the suffering haven't you thought of that?"
We felt that these were the lines that we carefully crafted by Ismene to try and get through to Antigone the seriousness of the consequences of burying their brother. We decided that we wanted to lift Ismene as she is the one with the control over this situation throughout her speech, as Antigone doesn't interrupt her. We wanted to show her power through semiotics which would enable us to show her status at this point.
On the "thousands arms" line, we thought that the best way to show this was to start grabbing on her legs and arms when she walked past us in an arch as it visually showed the invasion of hands that would carry them to their deaths if they proceeded to undergo their task.
We also decided that the "suffering" would be a smooth transition until some work with the machetes as they create tension as they carry a injury threat. We experimented with threatning actions with the machetes like running it up and down the arms and across the neck. We also found that running the blades along each other it made a metal scrapping sound which we used instead of imitating the cutting of her neck.
• "...their great clean hypocrites' hands, their loutish stare."
• "And the suffering haven't you thought of that?"
We felt that these were the lines that we carefully crafted by Ismene to try and get through to Antigone the seriousness of the consequences of burying their brother. We decided that we wanted to lift Ismene as she is the one with the control over this situation throughout her speech, as Antigone doesn't interrupt her. We wanted to show her power through semiotics which would enable us to show her status at this point.
On the "thousands arms" line, we thought that the best way to show this was to start grabbing on her legs and arms when she walked past us in an arch as it visually showed the invasion of hands that would carry them to their deaths if they proceeded to undergo their task.
We also decided that the "suffering" would be a smooth transition until some work with the machetes as they create tension as they carry a injury threat. We experimented with threatning actions with the machetes like running it up and down the arms and across the neck. We also found that running the blades along each other it made a metal scrapping sound which we used instead of imitating the cutting of her neck.
Here is the video of our movement:
https://youtu.be/SBWXjS
If we were to do it again, I think that having the Ismene react to the placing of the swords would be more affective as we would see and feel the uncomfortableness and how invasive the guards would be.
If we were to do it again, I think that having the Ismene react to the placing of the swords would be more affective as we would see and feel the uncomfortableness and how invasive the guards would be.
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