Since I was young I have been involved with dance. Due to this, stories and even a word by itself is translated into movement in my mind. I envision a dance in the creation of a story from Hint Fiction through a different medium for this reason. The similarity of having to analyze word content for this genre in order to understand the story applies for dance as well. Both of these mediums have an aspect of drawing from the material and connecting the dots in a way to try to understand the story.
One story I was drawn to when envisioning each of them as movement was, What Didn’t Happen by Janet E. Gardner. In this story the moment of death is created to be not a flash, but only a taste remembered from childhood. I imagine that this specific taste “of lemon buttercream frosting” was made by his mother and enjoyed throughout the summers of his youth (Gardner 64). I conceptualized this idea because lemon buttercream is not a flavor commonly picked up at the story, so I believe that it may be homemade. If this is the case, his mother may have been the one to make it for him during summer when lemons were ripe. Gardner describes the man in his final moment, “his mouth filled with the taste, perfectly remembered from childhood” (64). This flood of taste he so clearly remembers from …show more content…
Through movement it would portray his life flash by singling out the moment from his childhood discussed in the story. The movement would be able to portray these events by frantic rush of movement that represented the chaos of the brain at the moment of death. From there it would single out two dancers, a young boy and an older woman. These two dancers would represent the man from the story, as a child, along with his mother. In this moment the dance would include parenting to introduce the relationship through movement together. Through this moment the viewer would be able to feel this moment and remember his