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Audio recording clip from an interview with Lindell Blake

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    Tell me about your daily practice. Daily practice. It depends on what I'm practicing. For now we'll use Spoken Word, Spoken Feet since that's the most recent. I use the night before to practice the lines, to really understand the characters and how they move and how they operate and try to separate myself from the characters and let them move how they want to move and not how I want them to move. So I'll practice that in the studio for about an hour or so. The next hour I will devote to just doing the character and really listening to what he has to say and listening to movement, listening to my feet. So that's two hours gone now. So the third hour I'll put the Spoken Word, Spoken Feet project away. It's time to as I say think. And what I mean by ‘think’ is put the shoes on, put the music on and start visiting different countries and different friends through dance. I would just pick out -- I have just a plethora of CDs in my collection and they all range from jazz to soul to hip-hop t