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The concept of the ‘wolf-girl’ originated from the animated film ‘Princess Mononoke’ by Japanese film director Hayao Miyazaki.

Princess Mononoke was a girl who had been left in the forest as a baby and was brought up by wolves, much like the jungle book story. She believed within herself that she was not human, but was a wolf, and that a wolf was her mother. She could fight like a wolf, and they treated her as their own. In the film she wears wolf fur as a sort of cape, which influenced my costume idea. There is another part of the film where other characters dress as bears to blend into the forest, in a similar cape style. The wolf-girl idea combines Western, Eastern and African cultures, yet it needed to be developed somehow. As a group stage performance, I believe this dance based idea would have worked, yet as a solo street performance I decided to adapt my idea

Throughout my study of Street Arts there has been one prominent theme which keeps popping up, and that is of ‘turning the world on its head’. To shock, surprise, confuse and entertain an audience with the unknown and extraordinary. Whilst reading Artaud’s ‘The theatre and its double’, I came across this paragraph which aided me towards my new concept:

“We all agree a beautiful woman has a pleasing voice. Yet if from when the world began we had heard all beautiful women call us by snorting through their trunks and greet us by trumpeting, we would ever after have associated the idea of trumpeting with the idea of a beautiful woman and a part of our inner vision of the world would have been radically changed”. (Artaud, A. 1970:31)