Katherine "Kissin' Kate" Barlow (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ikissdhimbck) wrote2010-06-20 02:51 am
ikissdhimbck) wrote2010-06-20 02:51 am
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OOC: Hallelujah
In the not too distant past, a set of OOMs hit the bar. OOMs about love found, love lost, love found again; elation, grief, heartbreak, and hope; strength to pick yourself back up, and weakness that bows you to the ground. I chose the lyrics for the linktext carefully -- lyrics from Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah."
I've gone two years without making an OOC post. I always feel awkward about doing these. But, recently, I was pointed to something I felt was pertinent enough to Kate and my feelings for her to add it here.
My hope, my goal, with that plot, with those ooms, was to illustrate something deep, dark, scary, and real. About the imperfections of life, the struggles and weights we take on and bear that bow us to the ground. All of us look for salvation somewhere, in something. We look for strength, for the will to press on, to overcome burdens that sometimes feel insurmountable. Sometimes we do that on our own. Sometimes, we look to the one(s) we love the most to help bear us through.
I love all forms of art -- not just writing, even though it is my favorite -- music moves me, and so does dance. Recently, on a show called So You Think You Can Dance, Sonya Tayeh choreographed a piece that absolutely touched my heart in indescribable ways. It was beautiful to watch, to admire and appreciate, but it was even more soul-shaking to feel, and experience. In the one and a half minutes these two dancers -- Alex and Allison -- performed her vision, embodied, with far more eloquence and talent, every single intention and emotion I poured into those OOMs. If I could distill Kate, everything she felt, everything she was, for that period into one feeling, one vision, one thought or emotion or moment, it would be this.
I'm sure Fox will claim copyright infringement and take down the link eventually, but I wanted to remember it.
I've gone two years without making an OOC post. I always feel awkward about doing these. But, recently, I was pointed to something I felt was pertinent enough to Kate and my feelings for her to add it here.
My hope, my goal, with that plot, with those ooms, was to illustrate something deep, dark, scary, and real. About the imperfections of life, the struggles and weights we take on and bear that bow us to the ground. All of us look for salvation somewhere, in something. We look for strength, for the will to press on, to overcome burdens that sometimes feel insurmountable. Sometimes we do that on our own. Sometimes, we look to the one(s) we love the most to help bear us through.
I love all forms of art -- not just writing, even though it is my favorite -- music moves me, and so does dance. Recently, on a show called So You Think You Can Dance, Sonya Tayeh choreographed a piece that absolutely touched my heart in indescribable ways. It was beautiful to watch, to admire and appreciate, but it was even more soul-shaking to feel, and experience. In the one and a half minutes these two dancers -- Alex and Allison -- performed her vision, embodied, with far more eloquence and talent, every single intention and emotion I poured into those OOMs. If I could distill Kate, everything she felt, everything she was, for that period into one feeling, one vision, one thought or emotion or moment, it would be this.
I'm sure Fox will claim copyright infringement and take down the link eventually, but I wanted to remember it.