Tuesday, July 15, 2008

New Hoizons... One Year Later

I'm back! Back at the Dance Exchange, having returned to freshen up on skills, and revisit old places with new perspectives.
Conversations on movement, on experience and resistance. Do dancers experience resistance? YES!!! I think I (and perhaps many, many people can relate) resist most strongly the things that I feel most strongly about. Excluding chocolate of course.

The Dance Exchange is not a place where you come to learn how to dance. Yes, many people who take workshops or even perform with the Dance Exchange may have limited dance experience, but no one at the Dance Exchange will instruct them on what they should or shouldn't be doing. The dance is already there. You are shown how to find it.

It's not about a certain way of moving, the dance is about you moving in a way that suits you. The art is not about trying to be something you're not, but rather being honest to who you are in movement. Uncontrived, perhaps awkward, yet always beautiful, movement that comes from an honest place is ultimately human. And, I think, being able to create that, organize it, repeat it, and place it on the stage for everyone else to experience is the ultimate act of artistry.

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