Nina stands
centre stage, head down, her arms are
crossed over her body, grasping her neck. The background is blank.
She
stretches upwards with her elbows and lets her hands run sensually over her
face as she brings them down the centre of her body, lazily.
When her
arms reach her side a hand materializes at her right hand and brings it up
above her head, her other arm follows.
She crosses
her left leg behind her right and spins lazily to her left while a more
definite male form appears, from the hand holding hers, behind her, and directs
her action. She stops, facing stage right.
Fully formed
man standing behind Nina and lets her arms fall slowly.He brings his right arm
around her neck. While supporting the small of her back with his left hand he
pulls her into a backwards lean very slowly and pauses. Nina’s arms hang
limply.
Suddenly he
pushes her upright and forward towards stage
right.
The man
de-materializes after pushing Nina away from him, almost instantaneously he re-
materializes at stage right in time to
catch her before she falls forwards.
Note:
whenever the male disappears or re-appears he has the appearance of
transforming into a cloth and either crumpling to the ground before
disappearing entirely or twisting up from the floor before transforming into a
human form.
The man
takes Nina’s hand and begins to spin her around him as they travel towards stage left. He stops her from spinning,
face to face with him.
She lets
her arm fall to one side of him and her body follows, fatigued. The man
supports her and swiftly steps behind her and picks her up from the waist.
Note: He does not lose contact with her
waist as he steps around her.
Continuing
the direction of his spin around her, he spins while holding Nina by her waist.
After 1x
360 spin, the man puts Nina down on her feet facing the audience. She tries,
hastily, to break away from his grasp, shoving herself away from him.
When he
tries to catch her waist again, she spins on tip toes in a tight circle around
him while he chases her around.
The man
manages to grab her hand and she tugs away, pushing back with her legs (her
back to stage left).
He pulls
her back and Nina crumples into his body before making one last attempt at
tugging away in the opposite direction (stage
right).
Nina breaks
the man’s hold on her hand and he de-materializes as she spins away on her own
travelling towards stage right.
Nina
crumples to the ground, exhausted (facing stage
right).
There is a pause as she sits on the ground, her hair now loose,
head bent forward, breathing.
A hand
takes Nina by the chin and tilts her whole head upwards slowly. She stands up
in order to follow it. Meanwhile, the man materializes starting from the hand
and appears, fully formed standing in front of Nina when she is upright.
The man
puts his arms around Nina’s waist (her arms are over his, hanging limply) and
lifts her off the ground. Nina hangs in his arms limply.
The man
spins slowly, roughly on the spot, still holding Nina.
The man
begins to de-materialize in an upward direction (as cloth being pulled up past
Nina’s neck)
Nina also
begins to de- materialize from the bottom, upwards.
Nina hangs
for a moment before transforming completely into a hanging sheet.
The sheet
hangs for a moment suspended by an unseen force.
The sheet
falls and crumples to the floor.
So, on paper the script is 2 pages long, which means by rights the film ought to be 2 minutes long- but we all know now that the choreography can fit into roughly a minute. I probably haven't written the script properly, it just occurred to me suddenly that we didn't have an updated one for the project under new direction. Perhaps I've been to descriptive and that's why it has ended up this long. At least this has helped me begin to split up the different natural sections to animate.
