Need help for a dance consept

[Raven11]

Hello eveyone.
I need your help and advice.
In a few months I'm gonna participate in a dance showcase and I need help with my consept.

It's going to be contemporary dance and I have already thought the main idea.
I want to be Lilith, but not as a demon.
I've read some stories which they were saying that lilith was the the first woman who, along with Adam, where made as equals by God. Adam wanted to submit Lilith but she chose free will and then God bunished her in desert.
Then, some theories says that it was Lilith who turned into the snake who gave Eve the apple, who God created after Lilith gone because Adam wanted a woman who could sumbit and made her from his ribs.


In my consept I want to be Lilith and show that I'm a woman, made from sand who chooses her freedom, knowledge, truth etc and that's why Im bunished from Eden.
Then I'm transforming into the snake who gives Eve the forbitten fruit and the reason I do that is because I want to help her and other women see the truth which is the apple from the tree of life which represents knowledge, good, bad, truth, etc.

I need help on how I could show those things into my choreography.
I'm allowed to have only small props with me and no other people are allowed on the stage with me.
Do you have any ideas about how I could start, what props could I have and how the story must end?
I'm thinking to wear a snake costume but other than that I cant think of anything else.

I would like my consept to spoke to all women that must choose their free will and men wants to submit them and to connected with #metoo somehow. To me Lilith is a rebelion, a woman equal as a guy who was bunished and judged because she couldn't obay. I believe in that version who is the snake she wants to open the eyes of every woman that feels pressured.
Or that is the road I would like to go either way...

Could you help with what props I could use to be understandable what I'm doing? How should I start and finish?
For example, would you recoment to start with Eden, and how do I represent Eden on the stage?
Do I start with being the snake from start?
I was thinking that maybe I could have an apple, or a mirror, or a cage as props but I cant connect with my story.

Any suggestions?

[Jan McNulty]

Hello Raven11 and welcome to the Forum!

 

I have moved your post to the Doing Dance Forum where hopefully you will get some suggestions.

[Tess1979]

Hi. This is a very good idea. There is a lot going on which may be hard to show. How long is the dance supposed to be? I would maybe concentrate to begin with on Lilith being made and then breaking free. So you could show the flourish of creation and she is free, but then she needs to be submissive and then again break free. How about using rope to bind yourself and then breaking free from it? You could create some fantastic imagery from being free to submissive and trapped and then breaking free again 

[Peanut68]

Great concept & ideas!

Have you thought about music & are there any limitations with that such as whether it has to be live/recorded/time limits/copyright restrictions/license required etc. 

I think I'd start by getting music to represent the creation first of Lilith (sand suggests certain sounds/music styles?), then her spurning by Adam (battle of wills....again, suggests music showing discordant nature....), then Garden of Eden/Snake also suggests certain imagery that can be shown in music... and I really like Tess1979 idea of using Rope as a prop....it made me think of a rope defined circle in Sumo wrestling (constraint) & then also how Rythmic gymnasts use ribbons (freedom)!