Dance Education - A Prelude to the New Year
Movement is intrinsic to the body. It can be intuitive, responsive, explorative or all of the above. But in the noise of everyday existence, many of us lose the connect with this body and its intelligence. The responses of the body and the mind to the internal and external world and the play between body and mind can be baffling to many of us, let alone be acknowledged and assimilated. And therefore for raw movement to be refined into a language of communication- for movement to become an art form- is an act that in itself is mind boggling to many of us. Surely, only individuals with a meditative connect with self and environment could have translated a primordial response into a stylised medium of dialogue. But can entire languages and dialects be a construct of a few individuals? Can it be attributed to one preceptor? We are looking at a river through time - one who has over centuries or even thousands of years charted a path for herself- a river that takes on different tastes, ...