"Where is the feection?" my professor belted again and again in his strong Spanish accent, "Sell me the teecket!"
As a part of a dance program one summer, I took an elective class on voice and gesture. The premise of the course was to stretch dancers to learn how to use the added medium of their voices in their art. (If you're a dancer, you understand this challenge!)
My professor was looking for the story in our art, what he called "the fiction," and he knew
he needed us to give him everything we had to get the story to him, to our audience.
What I most appreciated about the class was that it was never enough only to have words. We would take a sheet of words and chop it up to work on inflection, gesturing, song, pace, tone.
And then we would perform the words. And his point was always clear: you are telling a story, engage me.
It's the same in any communication, traditional and non-traditional. Your ideas are important. Tell the story. Engage me.
In the next few blogs, I will uncover some basics of great communication: idea, context, action, and repetition.
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