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"One’s real duty to the future is to do as you should do now. Make the best choices, do the best work, fulfill your obligations in the best way you can, and work on a scale that’s appropriately small. make plans that are appropriately small. if you do those things, then the future will take care of itself."

-- Wendell Berry

Dance Dance Dance

You gotta keep the step. You gotta limber up. You gotta loosen what you bolted down. You gotta use all you got. We know you’re tired, tired and scared. Happens to everyone, okay? Just don’t let your feet stop. 

--Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

Movement Research

a well ordered nervous system indeed...
Really interested in transitions at the moment in whatever form my movement practice takes each day. Where I can I'm trying to practice making my movements flow efficiently without looking fragmented and disjointed.  It's an art!

 

 

Images by:

1. Joe Nigel Coleman 

2. Nicoletta Branco 

3. Öykü Öge

Transitions

“In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.”

― Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places: Stories


 

Sunday Tune

Sunday Tune

Saturday Cartoon

Illustration by Wendy Macnaughton

Saturday Poem

" For women who are difficult to love"

Friday!

Wishing you a week full of goodness and light. Try to let your heart open wide to the joys that are showing themselves to you right now, wild and real. Talk to strangers and drive/walk/swim/crawl to places you’ve never been before.

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"The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths."

-- Barry H. Gillespie

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works to jump in and swim around

Mark Rothko, N. Dash  and just beautiful. 

"Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself."

- Moshe Feldenkrais

Tacita Dean

A clip from Tacita Dean's film "Craneway Event" gives us a look at the creative process of choreographer Merce Cunningham, shortly before he died. It's what Vermeer might have done with a movie camera...

"Why would you live in your body like you will be given another? As if it were temporary. You starve it. You let anyone touch it. You berate it. Tell it that it should be completely different. You tug at your soft flesh, wish it were thinner, wish it were gone. You fall in love with those who praise the way it sighs under their hands,  but who praises the way it holds up your weight, even when you are falling apart?"

-- Warsan Shire.

Laia Arguelles

Practice yesterday was a gentle swim, some underwater shape making and a long float in the sunshine. My ears are still full of water...

Images by Laia Arguelles.

the year of letting go.

“the year of letting go, of understanding loss. grace. of the word ‘no’ and also being able to say ‘you are not kind’. the year of humanity/humility. when the whole world couldn’t get out of bed. everyone i’ve met this year, says the same thing ‘you are so easy to be around, how do you do that?’. the year i broke open and dug out all the rot with own hands. the year i learnt small talk. and how to smile at strangers. the year i understood that i am my best when i reach out and ask ‘do you want to be my friend?’. the year of sugar, everywhere. softness. sweetness. honey honey. the year of being alone, and learning how much i like it. the year of hugging people i don’t know, because i want to know them. the year i made peace and love, right here.”

― Warsan Shire

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Fell Runner

"As we work, we use the form as a guide. It is something we work with, not something you learn to show off.
The form is a process that serves you, not an adornment you bring back to hang on your wall."

-- Chungliang Al Huang

image source: johnnythehorse

Andréa de Keijzer

"This choreographic experiment examines the moments before and after a photograph, a performance and an event. In this skillfully wrought "dance cover" of Esthel Vogrig’s Mi Ultima Foto, de Keijzer challenges conventional notions of originality and authorship in the creation process by building onto an existing conversation about the photograph as certificate of presence that conceals a map of past and shared existence."

-- Andréa de Keijzer

"What really interests me about capturing and suspending movement is that I get to experience something invisible and inaudible, as elusive and fleeting as thought itself, and give it form... Maybe my paintings are all just little fragments of the Cosmic Dance suspended in time."

-- James Nares

"With asana I felt there was a desire to create perfect lines that I question in their straightness. Why if our bodies are so rounded, and our muscles wrap around everything so fluidly, why the attention and determination to become a straight line? It felt like something was crooked. Something was not serving the way my body is."

--  Andréa de Keijzer 
from a conversation with Matthew Remski.

Women's Jam

Strong, beautiful women moving through, over, around and under straight lines and curved spaces.
From Brandee of monkeemoves.

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Straight? What’s straight? A line can be straight, or a street…but the heart of a human being? 

--Tennessee Williams from A Streetcar Named Desire

Sunday Tune