When I hear the music for Skyfall by Adele, I knew it would be the perfect platform to build a dance on. When I was in college, I took several theater classes. I was never very much good, but I did learn somethings about preparing to play a scene. One trick is to take your lines and with each line, assign an emotion. It's harder then it looks, but it helps to understand what you are trying to express, and it helps the internal to become external. Skyfall to me is about overcoming something that should have destroyed you, and being stronger for it. It's about not betraying yourself and having the kind of confidence that comes from belief in the truth, not knowledge in the perception of truth.
Assigning emotions are key to dance. One of my favorite dancers, Angel Corella is so adept at it, you could almost say he dances with his face!
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