The Lollapalooza Effect

Dramaturgy Comparison:

Interim Sharing:

beginning, audience light, performers behind the curtain
performers on spot
first part
- outer solo (short)
  - mundane
    - helene house mundane activity
    - yvonne normal bathing
  - theatrical
    - achuta entre-Ocean subtle destruction on nature
    - yuki practising piano aabb
- transition: piano and tapping
- outside fusion (middle)
  - yuki go to ocean, walking back and forth, water bottles, soccer
  - bathtub, leg
  - Yvonne and yuki play water, look at achuta, look audience
  - kitchen, eat salad, grotesque hand eating
  - piano, practising piano
- inner solo:
  - yuki growing in the crack of piano as plant
  - yvonne stillness
  - achuta 5 grief for human and nature
  - helene self care, human twisted and nature relieved
- transition: yuki as plant reaches helene and grow together
- inner fusion: (short)
  - helene connecting to yuki, bathtub chill with plastic,
  - yuki go to helene, ocean play plastic, bathtub plastic wave, run around
  - yvonne play plastic in ocean, go to bathtub
  - achuta piano, therapeutic, bathtub, chasing plastic
- transition: yuki use plastic cover piano
Second part
- duo a: yvonne bathing, yuki piano solo (other stillness), slow to fast,
  - When yuki and Yvonne scratch their head LX7
- duo b: of helene and Achutamanasa, in the middle(musis cue 3 when helene walk in from the exit door)
  - Achutamanasa to get ride of plastic/ helene wants plastic for self harm, they fight to get to their goal but there is clashes, Achuta takes the plastic from Helene’s head, Sit in the middle, and helene lays down on Achuta shoulder
- mimic，sequence of each other’s movement in your station, zigzag
  - bathing
  - ocean, walking back and forth
  - eating
  - growing mushroom
- unison with plastic,
  - growing mushroom, piano, tangle All going to the piano
  - bathing, kick leg and wash Helene stand up and walk to her station
  - eating plastics We put the plastic bag on our shoes
  - walking back and forth, we start moving towards they other stations
- movement using plastic in station

Final Show:

intro: human activity around the ocean one and they the other
- day 1 intro: achuta enters, establish her love for ocean by dancing, meditating, building a sand castle, eating, drinking with glassware or paper, reading a book
  - helene joining, yvonne join
  - yvonne leave, helene leave
- two stations
  - (yvonne/yuki) yuki inside the bathtub, hands out, collecting things inside, yvonne pull yuki out
  - (achuta/helene) day 2: eating and sharing food, play skipping rope, while they are jumping and laughing for 10sec
fight for power (y/y transition with music; movements start to become performative)
- 1 comfortable
  - (y/y com) yvonne is inside, bathing, foaming, yvonne blow yuki respond, yuki waving plastic, touching hands, flirting-conflicting
  - (a/h com) day 3: building a new sand castle, play frisbee, helene hit the sand castle with frisbee, achuta gets disappointed and leaves the stage, while helene builds a new sand castle, achuta comes back and feel surprised and hugs helene
- 2 uncomfortable (music become more dissonant)
  - (y/y uncom) yuki is the shower, yvonne shower, drop 1-2 normal, drop 3 follow, drop 4 move, change perspective, facing audience, fight for shower heads, yvonne washing face, yvonne run in squares of the audience, tango, telephone say hi
  - (a/h uncom) day 4 helene establishes friendship with plastic and ignoring achuta, yuki and yvonne join helene for picnicing, achuta enters and does dancing and bathing with plastic under her feet, and feels frustrated, achuta taking sand to wash hands for 10sec, hands on the head looking at the roof facing the audience
- 3 resolve
  - (y/y resolve) yuki inside yvonne out, fast pull out, slow, watching, use plastic to cover bathtub one by one, when yuki and yvonne use the last plastic to cover, stand and watch
  - (a/h resolve) duo, helene start to compose plastic bridal dress, achuta collecting plastic, when helene goes to the right side of projection and tidy up the dress
  - helene’s catwalk, achuta start to pulling helene’s plastic dress
  - achuta and helene fight, helene walks around, achuta collecting helenes plastic dress pieces, helene suffocating, achuta save helene, they hug, helene lean on achuta’s shoulder
- endlessness
  - movement sequence with plastic
    - Yuki step on plastic and jump forward, yvonne help to pass on plastic, at some point helene join yuki, yvonne running around passing plastic to both of them
    - Achuta start to collect 10+plastic and use one to blow the wind in with running back and forth, yuki helene yvonne join her, but just throw plastic to sand area
  - h/y/y cover audience with plastic
  - h/y/y go to empty seats, cover their laps with a plastic, sit in silence and look at achuta