Better -- kadlakadlakadlakadla

So I rehearsed my shimai (dance) of the character 'Hagaromo' several times last night. Hagaromo is a "beautiful heavenly maiden" who took off her feathered robe to go swimming in an earthly lake. A fisherman finds the robe and takes it. Hagaromo begs him to give it back, for without it, she cannot return to Heaven. At first he refuses but then relents when she promises to dance as the heavenly beings do. As she dances, she is flying and floating. She gathers all the treasures of Heaven (metaphorically speaking) and gives them to the audience before she disappears from sight into the air........ I finished my first run-through and thought to myself, "Well that didn't suck." Oe-sensei got up, walked onto the stage area, and said, "Better." I really thought I had gone to Heaven. After practice, he was urging us to continue to work hard but to remember to engage the audience with the characters as well. The boy in 'Kagetsu' (Meyu and Num are performing that) is young and merry and having fun entertaining visitors to the temple. Hagaromo is a beautiful heavenly maiden (as I have mentioned before)and to show that she is holy, we must have beautiful posture and imagine ourselves wearing a halo like Buddha. This halo spreads like an aura until our whole being emits light. -- At this point, Oe-san made a funny sound like, "kadlakadlakadlakadla" A little like karakarakara with a slightly rolled r. In English, it would probably be "twinkle twinklw twinkle." We all cracked up. I imagine that that will be his final word to me before I enter the stage on Tuesday. kadlakadlakadlakadla