Today's meeting was a bit of a jumble as we both took the base concepts that we came up with in the last meeting and ran with them - but that's what meetings are for, to work through the problems until the solutions are left.
I had focussed my initial research on the dances - and good news on both counts! I managed to find not only a Greek couples dance that is similar in basis and attitude to the Tango called the Ballos, but I also managed to find a link that would allow for the Tango to be used and still fit both concepts. The tango, would be danced between Hippolyta and Theseus - Hippolyta being Theseus fiance, and also Queen of the Amazons. The Amazon being in South America it links in the latin American dance influence nicely.
I also started a mood board on Pans Labyrinth, and through that I started looking into the David Bowie film Labyrinth from the 1980's. Both films have parrallels with A Midsummer Nights Dream - both involve the real world being invaded and changed by the magical, and vice versa, though Pans Labyrinth has more parrallels with the era and setting we are going for - it has the civil war (though in Pans it is Spanish and ours it is the Right Left conflict) it has a normal human being transported to a magical world initially in the woods, which alters her and the 'real' world.
Oliver had written out a preliminary idea of the two concepts, and we spent the meeting going over them, agreeing that we needed to continue working on the first concept but it was a sound concept - but that the second concept needed further attention, and arranged to meet again on friday.
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