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Story Lab
Ritual: The Story Performed


4. Ritual: The story performed.
   Ritual as a story "place" manifested.
   Place as the reference of ritual's story.
   Ritual as a story told in on multiple levels,
     and interactions: word, action, objects,
     movements, sounds, sights, smells, and
     atmosphere.
   Ritual's stories as a place to heal, communicate origins,
     and belong [to].
   The Body of a story: the story we share, beg/middle/end.
   Biology in a place - an extrapolated metaphor.


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The Text


Performance

Dancers - as actors -- the BODY knowledge. 

The '50's NY "silence" -- no synthetic climate

rotating circle (flat or not) -- into the vortex

dance, dance, dance; inter-work of arm gestures with text
"presenting" the text as if it were tangible (and in the
same space) -- cartoon effect.   

dance: rhythmic, etc -- takes us to another place.



Voic

Beijing Opera - "playing the body"

the story context is carried by the voice 
  choose the correct voice

locating sound in the body
  low pitches are more gutteral (stomach, etc)
  high are more chest area,
  highest pitches are *only* perceived (mainly) by the ears.

Aboriginine's "sing their ancestor's into existence"

"Amadallis" pop singer Gallis Demanda