(Poe's) Prose vs Pose

Since last class, our group has progressed from narrative with occasional presentation through dance to almost entirely dance with daubs of monologue-ing...monologizing? MONOLOGUING from or inspired by the text

Our dance is representative of the metaphysical struggle between "good" (love, society, conformity for the sake of company) and "evil" (Me! wanton indulgence, in our narrators case, addiction to alcohol), in which man is inherently evil, and must strive & struggle to be good, (something which he is more inclined to fail at than to succeed.)

In this degradation or distillation of our narrative into almost entirely dance, I must wonder, what is more representationally important: language or meaning? As we are basing ourselves off of a storywriter/poet, the words of course bear great relevance. However, the motivations of our piece seems to jive with Poe's overlying and underlying themes, (the addiction, the evil, the insanity, the misogyny, and the death) which are after all what is meant to be delivered, be it through words or movement.

In your own piece, what part do your words play? And your movements? Do you find narrative a tool of utmost importance for your meaning, or would you prefer to shake it off completely? Somewhere inbetween?