April 15th rehearsal

Mary is on my mind constantly. I continue to think about her and the decisions that she made. These thoughts became clear when we were looking at the images of her in the paintings. The ones that stood out for me were Mary in the school dress with the angel at the door, Mary sitting on the bed with the angel of light, and Mary in the spaghetti-strapped dress playing with her hair. In these images, Mary is so young. I've always viewed Mary as really young when she receives that message from Gabriel. I don't know why. I think it has something to do with me, the fact that I am young, and the number of opportunities given to me to do something for great or grand for other people. It was also interesting to me how in most of those images Mary was thinking or reading and the angel was presenting her with something, like flowers. I felt like the images was continually about Mary receiving knowledge and Gabriel giving something beautiful and alive. I felt like the movement/music material that we made somehow reflected that giving/receiving images. It may look totally different from the outside. I hope we keep revisiting this material again and again. I also hope that we talk about Mary's lineage. I feel like we can gain something from that knowledge.