sheLL
scenography performance
she’ll promise… she’ll dance… she’ll answer… she’ll tease… she’ll release… she’ll please… she’ll hide… she’ll expose… she’ll struggle… she’ll refuse… she’ll save… she’ll lose… she’ll return… she’ll tell…
…a storyof becoming SHELL
A story of a woman, who struggles and lives stuck in the cycle of society, traditions, family. This is woman’s symbolicdialogue with a blanket*. She turns the blanket into a shell hiding warmly and safely inside of it. But despite this, sometimes her inner uprisings, aspiration to freedom force her to get rid of her own shell. Through her entire life she has been carrying the heaviness of a blanket – a shell on her shoulders and only in the end she comes to realize that she has been carrying herself on her shoulders the whole time.
Wool blanket used as a costume to emphasise woman inner life, hidden in a blanket – a shell.
*According to an old Armenian tradition, bride’s mother prepares wool beddings as a dowry. Bedding also had a symbolic character of family warmth, love, prosperity. Often the dowry would be exposed to public to hear the opinions of society. Sometimes that feedback could change everything… In 2016 “sheLL” was represented at Tbilisi Biennale of Stage Design as a contemporary scenographice installation.
