8 counts to revelation Prelude and Cadence.-flying w...

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Tell me more...

Okay-Lets take a stab at this, or should I say plunge.

Everything dances. Everything is in motion and attracting to everything

else. Spirochetes and spiral nebula all spinning- all singing and dancing.

Nothing is empty. Everything full of something else. Vibration-dancing

of subatomic particles. Space. Emptiness is form and form is emptiness

etc-

as the Heart sutra expounds. So the fish is the ocean and the ocean the fish.

Ocean says- Where are my fish.

Fish says- where is the ocean.

But wait! From stillness comes motion. Jesus said: Heaven is rest and movement.

What is true dancing. My answer- rest in movement.

The dance comes from the stillness.

Earth dancing is swimming in the wave of the manifest. It is stillness

that moves within the atmosphere. It belongs to the interface of density

and light, and marries them both in its movement.

Some birds can swim and some fish fly- a good dancer knows how to

do both.

love

eric.

, ErcAshfrd@a... wrote:

> I never thought of that. Yes, such falling is a controled flying

> to earth.

Almost... perhaps it would be good to reconsider this "controlled

flying" as more of an "relational exchange between force and body"...

the two inform each other, the two become each other.

And this aspect of "to earth" is interesting, too... the moment of

impact. An "informed" body understands that moment to an extent that

minimizes impact on both, turning it into a reunion that doesn't ram

through either. The force of impact is absorbed, channeled away, or

redirected to some other part of the body.

> > I like to think of modern dance as ballet that "saw enough" in > >

one leap to realize the wonders of being on the ground... and a > >

whole new language was born. Now it takes decades of work > > to

"know the earth". This, too, is relative.>>>>>>>>>

> Its a flowing with gravity right? Not a working against it thing.

Exactly... pushing against it would be unnecessarily hard, perhaps

even damaging, no, probably damaging, as in the case of a body

colliding with earth from the heights of a leap.

Flowing with gravity with an allowance for "tweaking".

> > Think of the the face of the earth as a datum upon which one > >

dances. Leaping, falling, rooting around... but do we ever break

> > the surface?>>>

> The atmospere is the invisible earth, which we swim in.

Tell me more...

> > <snip>...until finally all that was > > left of her, of the dance,

of the magnificent dark orangered, was > > a tiny plug of fabric in

the face of the earth, soon covered over > > in windblown leaves of

similar hues.>>>>>>>>>

> Wow! Earth dancing, and spiralling. Love the spiralling, and the >

slow disappearing into earth. Falling into autumn- great imagery.

Such a compelling performance... so many ways to "think" of it. I also

like "the hibernation of summer"... imagine the spring equinox version

of that dance.

> > Return to earth? Or earth?>>>>>>>>.

> Return to the roots, and turning within the earth.

Eaten by the earth. Yum..

> > This distinction between expressing and being is interesting... >

> and difficult to master. Takes decades, eh?>>>>>>>>>

> Yes, or only a moment. As you say, falling is also good. No hand >

holds just free-fall, the effort is let go of.

Yes, effortless, but not without the possibility of "direction"...

> Well okay-but remember, we dyslexics dance by a different drum.

> Love dance is the best dance in town.

This reminds me of a scene in 'The Crying of Lot 49' (Thomas Pynchon):

a conference of deaf people, all dancing to the sounds in their own

heads... and somehow, it works.

warmly,

Nina

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[Guest guest]

, ErcAshfrd@a... wrote:

> I never thought of that. Yes, such falling is a controled flying

> to earth.

 

Almost... perhaps it would be good to reconsider this "controlled

flying" as more of an "relational exchange between force and body"...

the two inform each other, the two become each other.

 

And this aspect of "to earth" is interesting, too... the moment of

impact. An "informed" body understands that moment to an extent that

minimizes impact on both, turning it into a reunion that doesn't ram

through either. The force of impact is absorbed, channeled away, or

redirected to some other part of the body.

> > I like to think of modern dance as ballet that "saw enough" in

> > one leap to realize the wonders of being on the ground... and a

> > whole new language was born. Now it takes decades of work

> > to "know the earth". This, too, is relative.>>>>>>>>>

> Its a flowing with gravity right? Not a working against it

thing.

 

Exactly... pushing against it would be unnecessarily hard, perhaps

even damaging, no, probably damaging, as in the case of a body

colliding with earth from the heights of a leap.

 

Flowing with gravity with an allowance for "tweaking".

> > Think of the the face of the earth as a datum upon which one

> > dances. Leaping, falling, rooting around... but do we ever break

> > the surface?>>>

> The atmospere is the invisible earth, which we swim in.

 

Tell me more...

> > <snip>...until finally all that was

> > left of her, of the dance, of the magnificent dark orangered, was

> > a tiny plug of fabric in the face of the earth, soon covered over

> > in windblown leaves of similar hues.>>>>>>>>>

> Wow! Earth dancing, and spiralling. Love the spiralling, and the

> slow disappearing into earth. Falling into autumn- great imagery.

 

Such a compelling performance... so many ways to "think" of it. I

also like "the hibernation of summer"... imagine the spring equinox

version of that dance.

> > Return to earth? Or earth?>>>>>>>>.

> Return to the roots, and turning within the earth.

 

Eaten by the earth. Yum..

> > This distinction between expressing and being is interesting...

> > and difficult to master. Takes decades, eh?>>>>>>>>>

> Yes, or only a moment. As you say, falling is also good. No hand

> holds just free-fall, the effort is let go of.

 

Yes, effortless, but not without the possibility of "direction"...

> Well okay-but remember, we dyslexics dance by a different drum.

> Love dance is the best dance in town.

 

This reminds me of a scene in 'The Crying of Lot 49' (Thomas

Pynchon): a conference of deaf people, all dancing to the sounds in

their own heads... and somehow, it works.

 

warmly,

Nina