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Mr. Toastmaster, Fellow members and welcome guest,
Imagination
(do not read this sentence) I knew I had imagination but it was lost
Like all kids, when I was young, I had a lot of imagination. To fly, to go to outer space, to visit the stars. With imagination, I felt happy.
I could not remember when I did not imagine any more, but one day when I looked back, I found that the space craft existed already. What else should I imagine? My real life became an eat-work-sleep repetition every single day. Imagination was not part of my life anymore, and instead, boringness, pressure, and work were together with me. And I was not alone, not in the minority.
[1’30”]
Suddenly I found others still had imagination and it was so beautiful
That was when my kids were watching cartoons like Tom and Jerry. When Tom chases Jerry and runs into the wall, you see a hole in the shape of Tom. That is an imagination about the power of the hit.
When Tom is smashed by a door, you see him become a tapestry hanging on the wall. A couple of minutes later he crumples down to the ground and becomes alive again. That is an imagination about the strength of the action and the reaction.
I feel happy again when thinking about such imagination, and my happy imagination came back again.
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Xxxxxxxxxxx I plotted, carried out, then presented to bring my imagination into reality
With my imagination, I presented a song called Fairytale this way,
The first half of the lyrics describes the reality that the singer, a guy, loves a girl deeply and always tries everything to make her happy, but the girl always feels sad and doubts the consequences are good. The singer and a girl dancer evolve a lot of subtle emotions like happy, hurt, and pain when the guy tries to convince her and to comfort her.
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From the middle of the song, the guy cries out, with his dreams, he describes the bright future and the consequence of them.
A prop piano, a symbol of romance, is put on stage. The piano opens into two halves and coming out is a male dancer wearing a pair of wings and stuns the audience into silence. The dancer and the girl dance the future. The agile, quick and beautiful movements, jump, and lift tell the audience in modern ballet vocabulary about love, support, trust and promise. The audience see that the male dancer opens his arms turning to wings to guard the girl, see their happiness and joyfulness, and see the blissful consequence at the end just like the princes and the princesses in the fairytales.
It is a touching moment when we present the singer’s imagination, his dream on the stage by our imagination -- prop piano that can open, the angel wearing wings, modern ballet, Sad then happy, reality then future, appear in turns on the stage in the same song.
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Another song tells about a girl she thinks she finally grows up. She is excited that she finally is free like flying.
We imagine how the audience feel if the girl suddenly flies above the stage from the middle of the song when she sings
See me fly, I ‘am proud to fly up high
And she spins in the sky when she sings
Believe me I can fly, I am singing in the sky.
As an audience, how would you feel? Wow! Fantastic! I’m moved! It’s a miracle! How can the girl fly?
How? It is creative and full of imagination. Behind a prop mountain is a lever, big one. When the girl steps on one end, she is raised up. With a big fan and dry ice, the audience sees her fly above the mountain and it is very breathtaking.
Plot, carry out and present imagination with imagination, that makes me really moved and I am really eager to see how you present yours.
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Mr. Toastmaster. 更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
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Mr. Toastmaster, Fellow members and welcome guest,
Imagination
(do not read this sentence) I knew I had imagination but it was lost
Like all kids, when I was young, I had a lot of imagination. To fly, to go to outer space, to visit the stars. With imagination, I felt happy.
I could not remember when I did not imagine any more, but one day when I looked back, I found that the space craft existed already. What else should I imagine? My real life became an eat-work-sleep repetition every single day. Imagination was not part of my life anymore, and instead, boringness, pressure, and work were together with me. And I was not alone, not in the minority.
[1’30”]
Suddenly I found others still had imagination and it was so beautiful
That was when my kids were watching cartoons like Tom and Jerry. When Tom chases Jerry and runs into the wall, you see a hole in the shape of Tom. That is an imagination about the power of the hit.
When Tom is smashed by a door, you see him become a tapestry hanging on the wall. A couple of minutes later he crumples down to the ground and becomes alive again. That is an imagination about the strength of the action and the reaction.
I feel happy again when thinking about such imagination, and my happy imagination came back again.
[3’]
Xxxxxxxxxxx I plotted, carried out, then presented to bring my imagination into reality
With my imagination, I presented a song called Fairytale this way,
The first half of the lyrics describes the reality that the singer, a guy, loves a girl deeply and always tries everything to make her happy, but the girl always feels sad and doubts the consequences are good. The singer and a girl dancer evolve a lot of subtle emotions like happy, hurt, and pain when the guy tries to convince her and to comfort her.
[4’]
From the middle of the song, the guy cries out, with his dreams, he describes the bright future and the consequence of them.
A prop piano, a symbol of romance, is put on stage. The piano opens into two halves and coming out is a male dancer wearing a pair of wings and stuns the audience into silence. The dancer and the girl dance the future. The agile, quick and beautiful movements, jump, and lift tell the audience in modern ballet vocabulary about love, support, trust and promise. The audience see that the male dancer opens his arms turning to wings to guard the girl, see their happiness and joyfulness, and see the blissful consequence at the end just like the princes and the princesses in the fairytales.
It is a touching moment when we present the singer’s imagination, his dream on the stage by our imagination -- prop piano that can open, the angel wearing wings, modern ballet, Sad then happy, reality then future, appear in turns on the stage in the same song.
[5’30”]
Another song tells about a girl she thinks she finally grows up. She is excited that she finally is free like flying.
We imagine how the audience feel if the girl suddenly flies above the stage from the middle of the song when she sings
See me fly, I ‘am proud to fly up high
And she spins in the sky when she sings
Believe me I can fly, I am singing in the sky.
As an audience, how would you feel? Wow! Fantastic! I’m moved! It’s a miracle! How can the girl fly?
How? It is creative and full of imagination. Behind a prop mountain is a lever, big one. When the girl steps on one end, she is raised up. With a big fan and dry ice, the audience sees her fly above the mountain and it is very breathtaking.
Plot, carry out and present imagination with imagination, that makes me really moved and I am really eager to see how you present yours.
[7’]
Mr. Toastmaster. 更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net