Everday Dancing
physical poetry
The dance arises from how we play mindfully and aesthetically with spontaneous action. Warm-ups become sketches become compositions. We engineer action in space, feel movement images arise and transform, practice letting go of our expectations of how the dance should look and relax into our body's intelligence.
Today we concentrated on bones and looseness.
Yesterday it was breathing and phrasing.
The ability to sustain your attention through a transition is the antidote to doubt.
A dance is body grammar. Every movement counts. Your everyday dance is a conversation between the inner you and the outer world. As you practice aligning head, heart, and body, you create and sense the composition, not necessarily literal, but meaningful and real. You apply this dance-mind-ability anywhere, anytime.
Participants Say:
"...a true dance experience via a different route than traditional dance classes -- through the movement of the bones, muscles, organs, the effects of gravity, initiation, intention, images, and especially mindfulness."
~ Dorinda Holler, dancer and occupational therapist
"Susan taught me to reveal my being through the vehicle of moving my body... expression far beyond words, like music."
~ Jim Reavis, therapist and sailor
"...the unique dances of ordinary people effortlessly take form and become extraordinary."
~ Sue Ellen Liss, school counselor
"Everyday Dancing brings me into the flow experience of being totally alive and creative in the moment, then the next moment, and the next"
~ Laura Berg, writer and editor