Archive of ‘Reflections’ category

Dance: Aspiring to the World’s Favorite Metaphor

“Dancing is the world’s favorite metaphor.” – Kristy Nilsson Every day, dance is used as a metaphor. Moonlight dances on water. Life is a dance. Or, as Dr. Sue Johnson has written, “Love is a constant process of tuning in, connecting, missing and misreading cues, disconnecting, repairing, and finding deeper connection. It is a dance […] Read more…

What Learning Choreography Taught Me About Improvisation and Individuality

Quite often I hear comments equating the lack of an improvisational quality in someone’s dancing with “doing choreography.” When someone says this, they don’t mean that the dancer has planned the entire dance movement by movement in advance. What they usually mean is that the figures they’ve learned are being repeated without connecting them to, […] Read more…