Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
it's funny the little signs you receive everyday, if you just open up your senses to it. i went to bed thinking all my little thoughts about how to put together this framework for the show - which seems to encapsulate more than that... the whole theory of this 'venture' and even my whole theory on education.... something that just happened without my even realizing it - and in the morning, on a completely blank slate state of mind, the first song i hear is a beautiful rendition of lennon's 'imagine'.
and something resonated inside.
perhaps at the beginning there can be a collage of songs, video clips, photos, images, etc, from pop culture and the media..... specifics blended together to build a bigger picture? or maybe the collage at the beginning could be of images and video clips that we create? because that would be keeping with the whole original work concept. but maybe sampling and then supplementing our own stuff with it would be effective too - all rapper-esque....
hmmm.....
if nothing else, this song is just another piece to a larger whole. it's so simple. yet so seemingly unattainable in the world today. an ideal. a hope. a plea.
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maybe do a montage of pop culture at beginning - video/images put to a mix of hand picked songs.... set the mood.... perhaps some of the video can be interview clips of the performers answering poignant questions... or performers and randoms answering the questions. questions of their own experiences with "other" and stereotypes and how it's impacted their lives. visions for future. questions, concerns with what is going on today. ...........
or perhaps more effective... to show production video/still shots and put to choice musica. to begin by showing the process. by showing the group working to create a final whole. by showing the mesh of different artistic tools and different people to bring a product to stage. process to product. .... put the montage, the interviews, somewhere within the show itself??
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