Smoke and mirrors

AK's idea to use the smoke of a cigarette and the cigarette in the hikinuku scene detailed below in his post, is interesting and I would like to try out a corresponding use of same:

The 'pataphysical dance (formerly Aristotle dance... or perhaps simply 'triangles'...) will according to my tentative plans use a dry ice machine to emit smoke clouds from the corners of the stage.

A spectator looks at the screen at: the 4 triangle capes from above, with the UV light projecting (or flashing if we can't get use the UV bulb in the projector) a spiral motif onto the white capes, and smoke plumes spiralling into the scene from the 4 corners. A pseudo-alchemical ceremony, a spectacle too.
Then, the camera pans lower and the source of the smoke is revealed: an extremely large cigarette (prop) which is evidently a fake prop. Or, perhaps it is carried across the scene of the four dancers by a stage hand. (To some polite coughing would be too much)

The connection to the cigarette of the hikinuku is apparent: what is suggested poetically in that scene is distorted in the 'pataphysical. What is elegant in the hikinuku scene is made hyperbolic in the 'pataphysical. This potential relationship could set up nicely two points on a continuum which we are already exploring... the occident/orient, truth/untruth, recognition/exploitation (?)...

SH