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Stiff & Inflexible: A Musical Dance in Three Acts
A 4TH Musical Project
Act I
A Balladeer sings:
Stiff and Inflexible
Where are you?
Are you locked inside
Unseen
Unheard
Masked and unrecognizable?
Stiff and Inflexible
Where are you?
Yoga flow
Therapy health
Do little but
Call you something else
Stiff and Inflexible
Where are you?
It’s time to be found
Uncovered
Given voice and feet
Music and dance
Stage directions
Upstage / Center Stage / Downstage / Left and Right
Music
Slow, plaintive (Joan Baez — Forever Young), deepening into sadness, grief, and exposed
Balladeer sits DSL playing old wooden guitar
Small orchestra UC on a dias
3D Virtual backdrop — everyday scene, part city, part small town, intersecting paths, lots of signs about fitting in and looking good and getting ahead, and…
