Soaring Stories

Yesterday, I was performing at the Johnson Museum on Cornell University to celebrate their Art-full Saturdays and a new Aboriginal art exhibit.  I had gone through the museum earlier in the month in order to find artifacts and match stories from around the world with them.  I tried something I had used previously and forgotten; chants in between stories to mark the end of one and beginning of the next.  This time I used “A story, a story, let it come, let it go!”  The audience chanted it with me.  Each chant created a story  wrapped like in a lovely wrapper.  The audience knew when to respond to the end and welcome a new tale.  If you haven’t tried this before, it’s a fun and effective way to end and begin a story.