spilling

wanted to capture some notes - conversations with Justin:
Illusionist says: "She is heartbroken, she must go home or she will die."
Justin asked: "What is home?  What is home for her - for elephant, for Charmion?"
I think "home" for Charmion is not a geographical place, it is an opportunity; or THE opportunity to "fly" to do her work, the ability to dream, the ability to imagine. This helps me understand why Charmion is important to me.
Thus, revealing the "work" of the magic is important.  Charmion doesn't disguise the work/labor it takes to be on the trapeze.  She reveals it.
Some design/choreography notions: verticality, skeletal, what is revealed
Scale, near/far.
Dimensions: what is in 2D? 3D? 4D?
2D is in the minds of the characters
3D is what we live.
Then what is in 4D (time)?
Charmion's theme: "To pursue what we are passionate about we have to bare ourselves to the world"
Justin: "Age of timeless machinery"
Walking on eggshells
We bare ourselves to the world
elephant as our inner selves, that we are afraid to show (and yet, we can't not)
What does it mean to give of yourself? Past personal/represented through an animal/through scale?

With Chip:
Elephants make subsonic sounds that travel great distances, humans can't hear them.
Young elephants chained, learn the confines and then when they grow old enough/big enough to break the chain, they don't because they were taught to believe that they couldn't.

With Justin in the space:
Justin shared Erin's idea about the reverse clown car.  The Fortuneteller's skirt transforms into the circus tent, and everyone goes inside, and then she descends to human height, and the people have disappeared.
"Things are not what they seem".