Vinn's Journal
October 2009 |
Soul Motion dancers appreciate that space is an inside/outside job. Our practice consists of knowing the dance both in the space behind the eyes, the internal psychic space, and the physical time/space of the room in which we stand ready. Both environments deserve our conscious attention. Both environments figure prominently, as sacred containers, for the dance. Both court a position of presence and set up an atmosphere of invention, which surrounds the dancer.
Rest in the interior space of allowance as movement moments arrive and disappear. Become clever at noticing what is happening as fluid events and remain alert to the overlay of judgment, analysis, and commentary. Witness all movement moments in their cycle as they appear, crest, and depart. Return to the gap and notice the next oncoming movement moment. Like gestures born in the dance, they wither away as they are being constructed. Announce yourself as the one who experiences the experience. Take a step to the right and return home to witness and reclaim happiness as what is happening.
Each space the conscious dancer occupies is a province of waves of conscious awareness that crest toward the shores of becoming. In the dawn of the everyday dance, these shores anchor moments of mystic play and opportune occasions for appreciation of sentient surprises.
Space is a stretched canvas on which the dance artist hurls the work of grace and gesture, the inquiry of mystery, the exploration of stillness, the recollection of consciousness, and the idleness of chatter. Space is a medium by which the dancer is able to pose questions, issue statements, listen as body, learn as mind, and lead as heart.
Conscious dancers expose the intimate Temenos space of teaching and learning that surrounds all dancers who show up to wake up, alone together. We are the point of choice of mindful motivation and passionate purpose that unite in communion each time we stand ready to dance. Pleasure and principle, miracle and mundane, spirit and specifics are anterooms we move through as the quest of conscious movement.
Space is a channel of communication, a vehicle for messages transmitted from dancer- to -dancer. Space is a container of the collective Temenos, where sun can rain on yesterday’s blues, where moments of bliss project rainbows of possibility on the walls of limit and loss. Space will shelter and support all those who stray toward the center's edge.
Space is revered, and ready to hold in high watch what moves through the community of dancers, without condition, judgment, or story. Space houses every thought, every gesture, every punctuated pause created as the dance. Space is the frame in which the dance form moves in, moves through, and in those rare transposed times; moves as the dancer. Space is alive.
Enjoy your self October 16, 2009