The difference between doing tableaux vs. stories using the StarChart™ is that stories involve creating a problem and a solution and they also involve people talking, which doesn’t happen in tableaux vivants. This means that in stories there is action in the form of movement of the actors from one point to another, and dialogue, which two things don’t happen in tableaux.
Therefore, those doing the StarChart™ ONLINE can easily make a nice tableau, but when trying to make a story online, it just doesn’t work and we can’t fool ourselves about that. We can’t beat ourselves over the heads trying to make stories work online when only tableaux do.
Understanding this can save the teacher who is new to the StarChart™ a lot of trouble. Just don’t try to do stories online with your students.
I’ve only learned this recently about the Ultimate CI approach online. In a recent Zoom training with one of the Saturday CI groups, I was trying to work with invisible, made-up actors to show my Zoom groups how to do stories in QL5. and QL6. It just didn’t work. Real actors are required (i.e. make stories work) and so we can only build Ultimate CI stories in a physical classroom. It is because of the fact stated above that movement from one point in the story to another and dialogue are both needed for stories to work but they can’t be accomplished in online stories. Stools in Hub C without actual people sitting on them don’t work online.
So how to do it? You can search Kandy the Korn and Pringle Man on my YouTube videos as a start. They are the earliest videos I have of stories involving the Ultimate CI ideas, but from 2015 so fairly dull, since the Ultimate CI approach and the Star were just starting out then.
More on this as we go along.