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 Since our first few brainstorming sessions with this group about what we wanted to present on, I have felt drawn to this concept of “limbo” or “Holy Saturday.” The past few years for me have felt like a period of limbo in certain ways, and I’ve been through a few smaller limbo experiences recently as well. It also worked out so perfectly that our final performance falls on the day after Easter!  While we worked collaboratively, it was fun to see how different we all are and to find ways to use our unique strengths and perspectives to make a more cohesive and well-rounded performance. Because most of our group members are English education majors, I felt like my role in the group was to provide ideas, feedback, and guidance for how we could physicalize our stories, how we could interact with the media we chose, and how to write out our ideas into a cohesive “script.” I am also a very visual learner, so color-coding the script, physically moving around and coming up with ways t...

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  Sonnet by Malcom Guite Website: https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2017/04/15/holy-saturday-everything-is-still/ Here at the centre everything is still Before the stir and movement of our grief Which bears it’s pain with rhythm, ritual, Beautiful useless gestures of relief. So they anoint the skin that cannot feel Soothing his ruined flesh with tender care, Kissing the wounds they know they cannot heal, With incense scenting only empty air. He blesses every love that weeps and grieves And makes our grief the pangs of a new birth. The love that’s poured in silence at old graves Renewing flowers, tending the bare earth, Is never lost. In him all love is found And sown with him, a seed in the rich ground. Playlist from James Notable songs: Memories by Thutmose; Home by Vince Staples; Bullet in a Gun by Imagine Dragons; Mortal Projections by Djo The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken Text: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood...

Re-watching the interview with my brother, I feel like he had a lot of cool hand motions/gestures that would be fun to explore and use in our DMP. For example, when I asked him how his relationships influenced the experience or how the experience influenced the relationships, he did a cool hand motion to show a feedback loop (starting at 2:10)--I'm learning that relationships seem to tether most of us in these limbo experiences, so using that hand motion to illustrate the way our relationships play a part in limbo experiences would be really fun. Additionally, he did a hand motion to show how the limbo might have seemed like it ended at one point, but really continued after that point (starting at 3:44), and the complexity and reflection with that hand motion also feels really powerful to me.  Another way I think we could use this interview is to pull some quotes about relationships and how people and connection help us in limbo experiences. Similarly, his advice gave me a lot of h...