Winning Back My Beloved
By Julie Merrin
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This is a love story. You have a King. You have his Beloved. You have an Enemy. The Enemy entices the Beloved away from the King. The King will do anything, even sacrifice himself, to win her back.
This story of redemption is intended to be performed as a dance/drama. It is especially poignant and applicable near Easter, but can be used any time of the year. It can be adapted to varying cultures.
The written story is NOT intended to be used as a narration during the performance. Instead, allow the dancers' movements to communicate the story.
A number of helps are provided to assist in putting together an effective performance. These include a list of Scriptures that relate to the message of the dance. Also included are suggestions for specific actions that probably need to be carefully times to go along with the music.
Speaking of music...any genre can be used. The first time I worked with a group on this dance, we had musicians who were able to create their own music. The second, we did not have musicians with that ability, so I created a soundtrack from six different classical pieces.
By changing the music, costumes, weapons, and so forth, this dance can be adapted to the culture of the dancers and audience.
I hope you will enjoy "Winning Back My Beloved", and that your performance will bless those who experience it with a fresh realization of the depth of our King's love for us.
I hope that
Julie Merrin
Hi! I’m Julie Merrin. I grew up in Findlay, Ohio, in a large family. As the oldest of six children in an often loud and chaotic house, I discovered early on that I could escape some of the chaos by losing myself in a book. I did this frequently and with such efficiency that my two youngest brothers could be rolling around on the floor fighting three feet from me...and I would be oblivious. In my imagination, I was probably somewhere on the prairie in the old west or on a rocket to the moon. You can go anywhere in a book. It is not too surprising then, that I had a dream of one day becoming a writer. When I was in about 4th grade, I used to say that when I grew up, I wanted to be a teacher during the school year, a librarian in the summer...and a writer in my spare time. Up until age 49, my only published work was a poem that appeared as an award winner in the October 1974 "Wee Wisdom" children's magazine. The funny thing about that one was that I had forgotten the assignment given by Mrs. Gerber, my 6th grade language arts teacher, to write a poem. As I stood with my classmates outside her door waiting for the previous class to be dismissed, someone asked me what I had written. Frantically, I asked if anyone had a piece of paper I could borrow. Someone gave me a small sheet torn from a 3X5 notepad on which I scribbled eight lines of poetry, breathed a sigh of relief, and turned it in. I didn't find out until I was in 7th grade that my teacher had liked the poem, submitted it, and that it had been published. Over the years, I have written a number of other things including a Christmas play, a children's musical, and a number of short skits. These have all been performed, but not yet officially published. I have three ideas in various stages of development for collections of anecdotes on topics ranging from language bloopers to Merrin family legends. The first would likely appeal to expatriates living around the world. The last, though, is likely to have a fairly limited audience. Currently, I am working on a series of children's books for kids aged 5-9. The "Katie Grace" series follows the adventures, trials, and challenges of a seven-year-old girl. Katie Grace is energetic, enthusiastic, competitive, sometimes selfish, and other times tender-hearted. In the first books of the series, her parents use several of the parables Jesus told to help Katie Grace find solutions to the challenges she faces. Book #1 in this series is available on Smashwords as of early March 2013. As for my personal life, I currently minister with children and teens at a children's home in Southeast Asia. I have lived in this area of the world since 1993, and deeply love the people here. I am a single mom to a beautiful daughter who I adopted from this country. She has been with me since she was six weeks old, with the adoption finally being finished when she was two years old. That could be another story to write, but as it is HER story, I don't think I'll ever publish it as part of a biography. But who knows...a fictionalized version might show up somewhere along the line in that novel I want to write someday.
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Winning Back My Beloved - Julie Merrin
Winning Back My Beloved
The Redemption Story
Told Through Dance
by Julie Merrin
Winning Back My Beloved
Published by Julie Merrin at Smashwords
Copyright by Julie Merrin 2013
All Rights Reserved
Unless noted otherwise in the body of the text, all Scripture quotations are from the New International Version of the Bible, copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society.
Smashwords Edition, License Notes
This ebook is licensed for use as an aid in preparing dance performances for non-commercial purposes. This ebook may shared with other people for purposes of determining the suitability of the material for performance in your setting. The author would appreciate it if additional copies are purchased as needed once a decision to use the dance has been made. You can return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy at that time. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.
Table of Contents
Important Notes About Using This Story In Dance Form
Winning Back My Beloved
Scriptures That Tell The Story
A Few Planning Helps
Important Notes About Using this Story in Dance Form
Winning Back My Beloved
is a love story. It is also an allegory of the greatest love story of all—that of God’s love for the people He created, and the extraordinary lengths to which He would go to bring those people back to Himself after they had run away from Him.
This little story about Manusia and the King who loved her started out as a dance drama performed by a small group of junior and senior high school students from a children’s home in Bali, Indonesia.
The young people with whom I worked in Bali came up with their own music that fit the