The Mind Creative
to control her laughter and my on-stage “friends” were busy
avoiding eye contact with me and the audience, instead of looking
sad and concerned. On cue I turned towards my “best friend” to
share my terrible grief only to find that she was missing from the
stage! Suddenly I heard gurgling sounds emitting from the hole
in the corner of the stage and my light technician’s voice cajoling
the dancer to get back on to the stage!!
Apparently, doing a dance step
she had slipped into the hole
and landed on my bewildered
light technician and he, with
Herculean
efforts,
had
managed to put her back on
stage! But even though she
was safely reinstalled, we had
a enormously hard time
controlling ourselves and
emote the pathos the scene
required!
“I have learnt that a performer,
apart from creative skills,
also to also cultivate
a great presence of mind
and an ability to face the
Unknown!”
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