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Friday, October 7, 2011

Shadow Dancer - A Storytelling Convention


This is an artist called named Miwa Matrayek she is a visual artist that does AMAZING things.

The really neat stuff happens at 2:49

Watch the video and then keep reading...

Imagine experiencing Christmas or Easter like this as a child. What if a "shadow" character walked through the world of Jesus and observed those events first hand. Think about "Where the Wild things Are". The boy falls asleep and finds himself entering a new world. How cool would it be if we could do something like this for kids? We could create new worlds or make them come alive for them.

Christmas night? Easter? Creation?

Think of all the possibilities!  Kids could re-live these events vicariously through this shadow figure.

TIPS
-- It would be a great idea to use a dancer/actor as the shadow to insure graceful and artistic movement.
-- To be more literal and less abstract, you might need a narrator talking along with the story.
-- Its important to think about the narrator's voice for such things. A voice like Fran Drescher's would kill the moment completely.


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