I shared this in the Sanctuary on Facebook and realized I should share it wider:
TASK at the end...
One time when I was at a training at Kripalu, a woman walked up to me during an open dance/movement class and said that watching me was like watching moving sculpture, and I think back to that often...
I think about how much that could change how a lot of humans think about dance and their own bodies and moving if they thought of it like that.
Too much what passes for dance now looks more like gymnastics and it ends up hurting the core of what dance is... ART... EXPRESSION... PRIMAL IMPERATIVE... RITUAL...
This tiny clip works here. The choreographer is sitting against the wall in the first frame... with all that lovely white hair...
TASK: over the coming days, even as you're just walking about... thinking about yourself like moving sculpture, like art, and ask what you are expressing even in that mundane movement.
EVERYTHING can be dance... or should be...