| Subject: Re: Olympia interpretation? From: Jessica To: VOCALIST <vocalist> Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
on 2/1/00 7:28 PM, Kylie Purcell at furrball-at-arcadia.buseco.monash.edu.au wrote: (snippage) > I was wondering if anyone could offer me some advice on > interpretation of Olympia from Tales of Hoffmann? > all manner of stiff movements just won't work for me, > My ideas were that for Hoffmann to be fooled by her she would > have to be reasonably "life-like" but not too much.
Kylie, what if you make her very lifelike in all ways except one or two - perhaps in the way she blinks (always wide-eyed to fully closed) and perhaps that her fingers don't move separately, but always as a webbed hand type thing? These two characteristics will be visible enough to the audience without requiring you to be mannequin-like and will make her seem more life-like too.
My $.02 Jessica
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