Challenge: mixing two contrasting influences in order to convey more effective meanings.
•STARTING POINT
Two values in opposition:
Nature vs. Culture
Romanticism
•Trepidation, horror, awe, expecially experienced in confronting the sublimity of untamed nature.
•Aim to go beyond the rational and classicist ideal models.
•Power of nature overcoming the human being, sublime, childhood and naivety.
Modernism
•Affirmation of the power of human beings to create, improve and reshape the environment with the aid of scientific knowledge, technology or practical experimentation.•Goal of finding that which was holding back progress and replacing it with new, progressive and therefore better, ways of reaching the same end.•Progress, reshaping of the environment, control. 
This starting point led my two influences to be…
Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin & The Rhime of the Ancient Marinere by S. T. Coleridge
•THE RHIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINERE
The ice was here, the ice was there,
the ice was all around:
It cracked and growled, and roared and howled
Like noises in a swound.
(…)
Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down,
‘Twas sad as sad could be;
And we did speak only to break
The silence of the sea!
Only in a hot and copper sky,
The bloody sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand, no bigger than the moon.
Day after day, day after day,
we stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink
(…)
And every tongue, throught utter drought,
Was withered at the root;
We could not speak, no more than if
We had been chocked with soot.
MODERN TIMES
WHAT IN COMMON:
Nature that overcomes human Progress, control, work in series
ratinality and possibilities
ALIENATION OF THE HUMAN BEING
A theme conveyed in different ways, that can emerge more strongly from a comparison between apparently opposite influences
A theme conveyed in different ways, that can emerge more strongly from a comparison between apparently opposite influences
IDEAS FOR THE PERFORMANCE
Body painting as costumes
The use of the human body alone to reproduce the pictoresque images described in The Rhime of the Ancient Marinere
Etienne Decroux, L'usine (The Factory)
Etienne Decroux, The Man who prefers to stand (in the picure: StevenWasson)
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