The spider was a symbol for the repression some of our society was facing. It was the idea that many people were still caught in a web of conformity and we run by authoritive figures, this idea went back to one of our original ideas when we were looking at obedience. The spider was great for a visual effect aswell. It was ensemble work and if done well could look really good.
The idea of the spider was Zee the spider who makes everyone conform on stilts wth a belt attached to him with ropes that we all connected to, the main characters would later break out of the web while the others would become part of it. These characters, the little spiders became relevant in different parts of the play as well ,going back to the initial idea of being part of the social web.
The spider structure was a choreographed piece of material that took quite a while for us to grasp as a group as we all had to come together with energy for it to look good whether we all did it in in exact timing or not.
The idea was good and we all agreed on that but doing it proved to be difficult as at first we started off doing the ensemble choregoraphy crouching on the floor, this proved to look sloppy and was too tricky so Rozana choregraphed a short routine in which we all became entwined in the ropes and then dispersed when we were let out of the web.
By the show i think this worked really well visually, and gave the audience something to question and think about.
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