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    I thought I would just create this little update to show that yes, I am still alive, and kinda show where I'm at in my process with my movement project and all that fun stuff.
    So I have decided for sure about the subject of my movement project, as well as the music I will be using. My piece is going to be about the wind and the sun (more details about that to follow) and the piece I will be using is The Enchanted Garden from Ravel's Mother Goose Suite.
    I have been having a really hard time mapping out what I'll be doing in the piece, however. I have the idea of this relationship between the sun and the wind that have given me a few ideas, but it's still too vague and I'm finding myself with a lot of dead space as well as rushing transitions before the same transitions happen in the music. So I've been scratching my head trying to figure out how to fix this, and I think I have a solution. I am going to write the story of the sun and the wind like it were a fairytale. In my mind, this sort of relationship is a sort of myth or folk tale or fairy tale, so it makes perfect sense to adapt it into some sort of story. I also think that if I write down a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end, it will give me a more specific blueprint of what I should highlight and do in my movement piece. It will hopefully provide conflict along with a general arc. I'll be posting the story on this blog within the next few days, so that'll be up soon! I should say that it will most definitely be a '1st draft' of a story and I am not much of a writer. So I beg of you, please do not expect any Hemingway or Dickens lol.
    And in other news, we continue on with our clown! I feel like I have moments where I fully understand what I'm doing with my clown, but then more often than not, I feel like I have no idea what the boundaries or parameters of my clown are. The emotions on my mask are good outlines, but I feel like it's all the middle stuff and how those expressions can be expressed that I'm having a hard time defining. I feel like since I've decided on 'Whatever Lola Wants' for my lip sync piece, I have a sort of better idea of what I want to go for, but it's the matter of finding those positions or how to express my character in active situations that I'm struggling with. I think it's just a matter of trial and error though, so I just need to mess around and do random things and see if it feels right to me and my clown. I will figure this out!! I got this!! :)

That's all for me right now! The blog post of the story of the sun and wind will come out shortly, probably tomorrow, and then I'll write about my experience 'adapting' the story into movement after that. 

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