My partner recently stumbled upon a short reflection I shared in one of my newsletters back in 2019. The reflection was about the beat, and its title (“From metronome to meditation”) is a good description of what still comes to mind for me when I think of this topic. But there are other aspects I’ve […] Read more…
“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…
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…
Sometimes I just love participating in dance discussions and debates. I enjoy having conversations in person, batting ideas back and forth by email, diving into discussions on the forums. But I can only take so much. I’m definitely not a die-hard regular on the forums with thousands of posts. Not that there’s anything wrong with […] Read more…