Dance is when you move to a song like no one is watching. It’s a response to
sound that is good for you and you express it so. The response is innocent
to linguistics, it’s so old it came before verbs, nouns or prefixes.
It means tuning in to a frequency of sound with your body as your
metal.
Dance is a verb, only it doesn’t know it, and expresses it so.
Marcella Pinilla is a scientist and journalist currently based in Buenos Aires.
My body’s ephemeral interpretation of how I perceive…..a reaction to everything real or imaginary…..that moment before the first domino falls…..the buzz after your paradigm shifts…..the pillow you share….
And, what isn’t dance?
P.J. Acayan believes that bios are for writers and med students, and that one should not be defined by one’s past, but rather have the present shaped by what one has learned from it (dumbass.)
Dance is a visceral celebration of the mind, body and spirit in motion.
Dance is an underlying pulsating breath expressed through flesh.
Dance is rhythm, flow, and stillness living through our body… our temple.
Dance is the up and down, in and out, here and there of our total being.
Dance is medicine for the soul.
Dance is a process of becoming.
Dance is giving thanks for what is sacred in our lives.
Dance is community.
Dance is god moving through us.
Dance is the harmonius manifestation of energy opposites.
Dance is silence come alive.
Dance is healing energy shared.
Dance is our way of saying thank you for all that is.
Dance is divine.
Dance is joy in motion.
Dance is sweet and sweat.
Dance is the work of happy feet.
Dance is for everyone.
Michelle AVA, (Masters in Dance Education) dancer, choreographer, improvisational artist and teacher is a vital force in the healing and performing arts community for over three decades, and is founder of Joy of Motion Dance Center as well as artistic director of AVAdance / Spirit in Motion.
rob,
Hey, just wanted to say thanks for having my words in the journal. I hope everything’s going well for you. Far as this issue’s concerned, I have no idea what dance is. I think if I ever find a satisfactory answer to that question I’ll probably cease to be a choreographer. Anyway, take care, blessings to you.
– jonathan
Jonathan Meyer is artistic director of Khecari Dance Theatre (www.khecari.org).
“What is dance?” …The answer to this probably changes almost every day for me. In this moment my response is: dance is a very complex thing that can be easily misunderstood. It is physical, intellectual, and spiritual. It is dynamic and diverse. It has the power to move us and entertain us.
Helanius J. Wilkins is an award-winning choreographer, performance artist, and Artistic Director of EDGEWORKS Dance Theater.
