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Leah's Belated Hurrah (fiction)
This multi-volume text can be read in a variety of ways: as a linear narrative; as the early stages of a script for film, video, or interactive digital platforms; and as the basis of a choreographed dance performance. The entire piece contains separate chapters/performances for selected time periods in the main character’s life, from childhood to middle age. Each decade of her life is represented: Chronologically, the first performance takes place in the mid-1960s, and the last one, so far, takes place in December 1999. Leah’s Belated Hurrah may be read in any order, since each chapter is designed to stand on its own, as well as part of the ongoing narrative.
A Child's Space, from Leah's Belated Hurrah
Dancer in Rose, the ten-year-old member of the troupe, remembers the mid-1960s in South Florida while reciting diary entries that she recorded with care, celebrating a fifth-grader’s worl...
From: elayne_zalis
Elusive Lifelines, from Leah's Belated Hurrah
Dancer in Blue, the teenage member of the troupe, commemorates her high school years in South Florida during the late 1960s and early ’70s. She explores the counterculture in Coconut Grov...
From: elayne_zalis
Vagabond Scribe, from Leah's Belated Hurrah
Dancer in Plum, the twenty-something member of the troupe, returns to South Florida in the mid-1970s after graduating from a small New England college. During her five-year stopover in Gr...
From: elayne_zalis
Nomad's Dreams, from Leah's Belated Hurrah
Dancer in Silver, the thirty-something member of the troupe, reflects on her sojourn in the American Midwest as a graduate student during the late 1980s. Using a personal computer and mul...
From: elayne_zalis
Virtual Sanctuary, from Leah's Belated Hurrah
Dancer in Black, an Angeleno in her early forties, revisits South Florida to research an autobiographical screenplay during the 1995 holiday season. Guided as much by a child’s longing fo...
From: elayne_zalis
Collaged Reflections, from Leah's Belated Hurrah
Dancer in Gold, an ethereal woman in her late forties, guides Leah on her real and imagined travels through the second half of the twentieth century. Elegant and wise, Dancer in Gold appe...
From: elayne_zalis
