The anatomy of a sidetrack

For my 4th devised piece in our CORE class I am working with Sylvie, one of the PhD students and Zac, the set designer I worked with in week one. I tried to work on a duet with Sylvie, but the rest of the class revolted and sent Zac out to find the two of us slipping away in the hallway.

This week I wanted to create a visual piece (as opposed to a performance piece) based on whatever Sylvie wanted to do. It seemed to me that she has been unhappy in every collaboration thus far, so I am letting her have her way. Sort of. Zac is not feeling well and is on pain meds therefore he is just going with the flow. Sylvie set me straight by saying that she is in fact not unhappy (catch those double negatives) with the process, but would like do a piece on anatomy. Cool, that sounds fun. And she wants audience participation. Double fun!

So I am currently researching elements of anatomy -- the anatomy of dreams and the brain. Kinesthesiology and illustration. And of course, I stumbled upon an vulva puppet on my way to the anatomy of nonsense -- which of course opens up that whole dada door.

Sylvie mentioned a goddess named Anatomie, that I am trying like hell to find any reference to her whatsoever. As I googled "anatomy and myth", I was forced to stop on this. There's nothing like the drama of Grey's Anatomy for a little distraction.