Marshall W. Mabry IV
Let’s create magic Together…
To those who deal in Magic + making the imagined tangible:
Magic- the collective act of imagining.
I remember the day I realized my stacks of unread plays were actually a library of spellbooks. Each one it’s own ritual.
Trying to simulate the human experience in a way that rings true. Spinning this veil with a fabric so honest and thin that you can project yourself onto it without hesitation- an illusion.
The job isn’t solely to create a character from thin air
But to call it in and exist in conversation with what you find.
We have the opportunity and ability to inspire divinity through our expression
to change lives completely in an instant. To make the impossible, possible.
So the next time you walk into a space of play + creation, take a breath and offer an invitation to the stage.
Offer to be in conversation with everything that’s come before and will come afterward in service of this moment.
In service of the hearts that will synchronize as we conjure something… magical.
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The work we do is noble…
The work we do is noble because we care so deeply. We don’t want to just do it right but there’s inside that, an unquenchable desire to capture something in every line and every moment in a bottle, that no one else could ever have created or captured.
It’s an illusive task- sometimes it happens by accident, sometimes it happens by magic, sometimes it doesn’t happen at all but what matters is the desire and the try.
Don’t let fear Starve you
The difference in quality
The difference in quality between one performance and another is not in technique alone, but in the surge of life that makes that technique seem invisible, the years of training must seem to evaporate in the heat of life”
The relationship of a musician to a score is like the relationship of an actor to a script. You’ve got to make the words your own, finding the right tone, melody, and rhythm.
Here’s a question for you:
There’s a difference between playing the notes and making music.
Anyone can read, but can you actually make music?
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