Wednesday, February 4, 2009

shadow puppetry

GROUP 1

tea

The performance began with a girl's silhouette plucking flowers from her hand while chanting "He loves me, he loves me not". She is offered a teacup, and drinks. Suddenly ...

planets

she is joined by swirling planets and a large dragonfly, and she herself sprouts wings. The swirling of planets is used as a visual motif throughout the extent of the piece, as a transition. At some point she begins to strip, and is watched by a silhouette in the corner.

kick

When she discovers this, her silhouette transforms into a large boot that kicks the peeping tom (repeatedly!) in the face.

The performance ends in a similar tableau to the beginning.


GROUP 2

The piece begins with a large sleeping silhouette that spews forth a slinky-looking character that travels through ...

mountain

... a mountain (that looks like it's on fire) ...

ocean

... an ocean (with bubbles that unfortunately didn't show up well in the images) ...

face

... and other transitions before returning back to the sleeping dreamer.

The sound for this piece was an ambient track.

GROUP 3

The piece happened in three parts.

maskmush

Within the first part of the piece, what seemed like a lump resolved itself into a mask of a pig's head through manipulation with hands, and then was re-crumped into a ball.

police

During the second part, a silhouette wearing a mask and displaying a potbelly sang weirdly into what looked like a microphone.

police pig

During the third part, the profiled silhouettes of the pig's-head mask and two other masks have what seems like a showdown, with the pig's-head mask eventually becoming larger and flooding the screen.

GROUP 4

lens

eat

fight

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