ON PASSION (and dance)

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A couple of steps back, please.- Our basic dimension is not our present reality, as we lay in so many hidden colours, identity is layered with identity as a rubbish tip, but so used we are to the condition we betray ourselves and feel so satisfied. Passion is a path that starts when our reason stops, for our reason is limited for it lies within the parameters of the illusion of our realities. Nevertheless, passion is the question that cannot be felt; it is purely the feeling of movement inside of us, the part of us that remembers the way back, which places markers in our journey.

Therefore, what is the most basic reality? The place where we sit and say; ‘This is it? Though I do not know what it is?' The most basic reality, the spiritual realm, when our consciousness lays down on our own bed, it rests like a child: the still reality beckons. LINK TO BOOK

COMMENTARY ON 452

I don't think any person has tried to understand passion, other than in a state of high emotion. What I am trying to express here is that emotion is important if living is important to us.

Maybe passion is not a feeling, or emotion; but an internal push! Some dancers become great, simply by following the lead of this inner movement. Here is a quote of one of the greatest dancers of the last century, no not Michael Jackson.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.

Martha Graham



more quotes from the great dancer of passion (and modern dance) :

• You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

• Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

• The body is a sacred garment.

• There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost.

• The body says what words cannot.

• The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

• Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

• No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.

• Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

• Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery.

• Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.

see her dance:

D - T H I N K E R - LAST WORD

If you look at a lot of music video, and you see some dancer, one has to say are they combining passion with their dance. Is it erotic dancing, which is impression dancing, and expressive dancing. Though in night-clubs, people dance without dancing, and it is more about doing something different, or for attracting a partner, it is not Individual dancing, but collective dancing.