In the first meeting I had with my group, it was decided that one of my responsibilities would have been the writing of the script, or better, the developing of a narratitive and the construction of a coherent sequence of imaginaries.
Althought each one of us had departed from very different perspectives, during our confrontation, it turned out that we have a common piont: the function of the human body as an object and its potential of convey meanings and images.
I started my work from the text we proposed, which have been illustrated in the previous post concerning this project. Then I researched images connected with them, that often derived from pieces of literature havinga relationship with the natural element of water.
1) As mentioned in the previous post, the main source has been the traditional corean poem, of which I used some of the very lines for the script
2)I found ispiration by William Shakespeare's Hamlet, in the description of Ophelia's death
3)Finally in Dante Alighieri's Divina Commedia, where the damned souls have to cross the river Acheronte in order to enter the Inferno. Dante's use of this river, in addition find its origin in the ancient Greek mithology.
4) From Gabriele D'Annunzio's poetic I was inspired as far as the fusion between human and nature is concerned (panismo d'annunziano).
In order to se up a coherent narrative, then, I divided the development of the action in five key moments: hesitation, attraction, fight, fusion and tranformation, each one of them based on a precise reference image.
Finally, for a 15-20 minutes performance, with my script I chose to convey a precise image, a precise feeling, rather than build up a complex situation. In all of this I tried to consider and respect all other member's ideas and influences as much as possible. It's up our development of the scenography/costume and towards the direction now to make a significant and complete performece out of this.
