''You have to love dancing to stick
to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to
show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold,
nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.''
Merce Cunningham
... and maybe that's why dancing is one of the purest expressions
of human spirit. You don't have to be a professional dancer to know that
dancing gives you a new perspective to life. It's the art of movement and
visualisation of music. It's good for your body shape, it releases happy
hormones and it's fun.
Then why there is so little dancing? When you go to a club, you
move, but you don't dance. Imagine dancing passionately your own
choreography in the middle of a dance floor, it would be a spectacle.
If you're good, people would think someone had paid you. If you're bad,
they would think you're probably very drunk and pay you to stop.
So that's how it is. You pay, you dance...
The point is, dancing gives us the feeling of freedom and a chance
to connect. Too bad that something that comes so naturally to people has
become so limited and strictly defined by a certain context. We have this
amazing instrument we call body and most of us are not using its full
potential.
Unlock yourself to the rhythm of life.
Whether at home or outside, don't forget to dance.
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| Staying Alive, 1983 |
“To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more
beautiful, more powerful.. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours
for the taking”
Agnes De Mille
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| Karen Elson by Steven Meisel for Vogue Italia, April 2015 |
“Nobody cares if you can't dance
well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their
passion.”
Martha Graham
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| Alexander Yakovlev, Dancers |
“I don't want
people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance. ”
George Balanchine
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| by Vadim Stein |
When we proudly embrace our passions, dancing becomes as
natural as walking.
When put in front of
other people's expectations, without being an attempt to impress anybody,
dancing becomes the most liberating expression of the true self.
That's why dancing
is a true synonym for freedom.
-What does it feel like when you’re dancing?
-Don’t know. Sorta
feels good. Sorta stiff and that, but once I get going… then I like, forget
everything. And… sorta disappear. Sorta disappear. Like I feel a change in my
whole body. And I’ve got this fire in my body. I’m just there. Flyin’ like a
bird. Like electricity. Yeah, like electricity.
If you fancy different styles of dancing, check out these videos:
A.B.
Love, Invitation to Inspiration
