Create ONE landscape 3:2 storyboard image with exactly SIX equal panels, 2 columns and 3 rows, reading row-wise. Reference image establishes exact character, materials, palette and props; preserve them. Art direction soft pastel and gouache animated theatre painting, dusty rose ultramarine ochre, visible chalk texture. Design an elderly male marionette dancer with silver curls, dark blue suit, red bow tie, wooden jointed hands, a tiny ochre bird; empty theatre stage. No words, numbers, captions, lettering. Narrow white gutters. Strict state chronology, do not leak final state into early panels. Panels: 1: Dancer bows head toward empty seats, bird small on balcony. 2: Dancer sits stage edge reaching toward shoe, still wearing both shoes. 3: Close bird beats wings on balcony, no human audience. 4: Dancer looks up at bird with surprised face. 5: Dancer stands and takes one graceful dance step, both shoes on. 6: Dancer bows toward the single bird spreading wings, theatre remains empty.