1. When I sit at my desk like a rickshaw puller (see picture below), hunched over instead of leaning back as he is, hugging one knee close, it's always my right knee that I hug. I wonder if it has something to do with my scoliosis--the fact that my spine is curved slightly to the left. In any case, I think everyone's body's two halves move differently. I should switch my knees [hugs left knee instead].
Glad to know the simile holds and rickshaw pullers really do sit like that! (So do normal human beings, of course)
2. When you're stressed, breathe. There are so many parts of my day when I hold my breath! Yesterday was a particularly stressful day, so I tried to sing this song.
3. There's a difference between looking and observing. Observing implies an engaged mind; the brain is taking notes (her hand goes here, and then she places it on her knee) with the intent of learning and remembering. Observing sometimes requires one's full attention, which means--stand still, don't copy the movement. Just watch and remember.
4. I like to jump. I like being lifted in the air. There is something delicious about not having the floor as a boundary--of course, it still is, but you use it your advantage when you push off. I love being picked up and responding to another person's initiation. I love being taken for a ride, being connected to someone's body and feeling the tension between us and still experiencing freedom as I move through the air. Whee!
1:01. I need to get Dan to try contact improv.
5. Dancing is more than just having the correct shapes. It's about moving with intention and authenticity. When I move my leg, is it because I'm scared? Happy? Frustrated? Dance is powerful when it conveys a message to the audience--preferably intentionally.
5. I need to accept that I'm not going to be the best at everything--especially not dance. But that doesn't matter, because God can still use me.
The questions I've been pondering for a while now are:
1. what role should dance play in my life? and
2. how can I use all these little nuggets of information that I'm learning about myself to encourage, equip, strengthen others?
The two questions are linked because I always learn something from any activity I participate in, but I don't want the process to stop there. The purpose of my learning should never me just to enrich myself. Yet there seems to be a wide canyon yawning in front of me that separates myself from the rest of the world, and I wish I knew which is the best way to cross it.
I am impatient, I know. I am innately a "doer". But I think this answer is only one that will come with time.
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this is pretty awesome
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