A look at the text of FUNDING THE ARTS

In addition to live dance and projected animation, Funding the Arts will also include dialogue to help tell its story.  Being that the live performers will "interact" with cartoon characters throughout the work, I've written the text in a combination of stage and screenplay formats to accommodate both going on simultaneously. So that everything will come together on the stage at the right time, the dialogue will be prerecorded along with the musical score using Final Cut Studio. The following short excerpt shows how a live dancer (KEVIN), and a cartoon character (EDGAR) will appear to interact. (Although it's difficult to see on this Blog page, the live characters are written in Plain Text, the screen characters in BOLDFACE to avoid confusion.) -- Felice Lesser            

                                           KEVIN 

                           (quietly, reading LU's note)  

 "Are you still working for that idiot?   Sorry we missed you. Love, Lu." 

                            (to Edgar) 

Nothing sir.

                                          EDGAR

                  I'm sure Lucinda and Robin were involved.

                  I can feel it. I'll get those traitors if it's the last thing I do.

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