The breakdown of a demonstration
Episodes:
1) PeacefuI get together with friends and other protesters to march to the demonstration
2) Meeting point of the start of the demonstration.Thicker crowds and movement.
3) More aggresive environement.PoIice.Teargas.
4) No breathing state.
5) Exhaustion.
6)ReIease and end of demonstration.
The dancers were asked to have a back and forth or right to Ieft movement.The angles of the body should be linear and not curvilinear at this point and have a stiff/solid upper body and lower body so we have triangle shapes of the body if they fall into a lower level. The knees should be almost always straight and if they change to lower levels they should try to create a triangle shape again and not curve their back.
The back and forth and right to left movement has the essence of a pendulum. That's why the legs are exaggerating after a while with the straight-knee movement. This helps to build also the illusion of the big crowd movement with 2 dancers which is like waves of people flooding the streets.
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Movement generates from the teargas attacks from the police. Imagine as a protester you are eceiving teargas and you are feeling the shock wave of an explosion on you.
Main movement traits: sudden, abrupt flexion and extension of the torso while moving around the space and start feeling dizzy by this sudden shock of the body.
Episode: No breathing.
Inspired by George Floyd incident but also from the teargas asphyxiation and the suffocation of measures and restrictions in our lives.
This episode is meant to be in a much longer space (see below). It will be filmed in front of Ino's graffiti of Mona Lisa and a different kind of Secret Dinner.
I am generally thinking of using different material as the white sheet (it's going to be some metres) for the suffocation scene so it's not so graphic and has a visual effect and an intervention in front of this large scale graffiti on a central highway in Athens.
The masks can be used in the different episodes and have different meanings.For me, the mask represents the protester with no name and no face, and anything that covers the face from being suffocated in a heated environment like this of a riot in a demonstration.
It also gives a neutrality to the moving body that can be used in much more different ways. The body becomes a quasi-object by using a mask.
Thanks to: https://athens.streetartcities.com/