It used to be so simple. I believed that I thought with my head and moved with, well, the rest of me. So it came as a surprise when my high school ballet teacher used to admonish the class to “Think!” And so I would think – about the homework I had to do, about dinner, about weekend plans. Not surprisingly, these thoughts didn’t do much to enhance my dance technique.
Then one day it dawned on me. I wasn’t just supposed to be doing things with my body. … Read More
Movement is the essence of being. Human conception itself depends upon motion, the joining of egg and sperm. The health of the developing fetus is judged in part by its motion. And before the newborn can shape a thought, it expresses its needs by moving.
Descartes was half-right – self-reflective thought is uniquely human. But bodily movement is older than thought.
Movement is decisive. Movement, not thought, separates the quick and the dead, the animate and inanimate.
“Science tells us that motion is an essential of existence,” Rudolf Laban observed.… Read More