It may sound counter-intuitive to say the dance is an out of body experience yet the question really is – which body? – what experience?
Our day to day experience of life is mediated through our senses, our movements and generally, through the body. The way we interact with the world is determined by our past experiences. And, we have a strange determination to seek out that with which we are familiar with – even if it’s not necessarily what is appropriate. We repeat. We cling to habitual patterns. We inhabit a body constructed from our life story – our autobiography.
When we dance – …when we really dance – …when we really surrender into the dance, we let go of this everyday body and we experience the thrill and ecstasy of being in a different way. We leave our everyday body and hence have “an out of body experience.” Each dance is a unique experience in time – that means we have the potential to occupy unlimited bodies through the dance.
Dance teaches us about potential. Dance shows us the way. Dance allows us to experience what its like to be actively creative in the way we relate and interact with the world. We can create a whole ‘new’ body with many stories to tell.
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