How to Have Interesting Weight
She is, it turns out, thinking about the body. How we inhabit the architecture of the bodies we are given. How our bodies can be powerful and how they can be encumbrances. How they can feel inextricably linked to our identities yet how they can also misrepresent and betray us.
Christine Montross • Falling Into the Fire: A Psychiatrist's Encounters with the Mind in Crisis
But more than the new body size, it was the lightness of being that enthralled me; although I didn’t quite understand the connection between trusting myself around food and trusting less tangible hungers (for rest, contact, meaning), the relationship with food became the lens through which I began to see almost everything.
Geneen Roth • Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
Your body’s shape and movement patterns continually change in response to the content of your life.
Ruthie Fraser • Stack Your Bones: 100 Simple Lessons for Realigning Your Body and Moving With Ease
I was starting to discover things that really connect to what I’m looking for, which is the quality of movement, the flow of energy, the use of gravity, lightness, silliness. I don't think I even thought about form!
Emma Robertson • Ohad Naharin - The Talks
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Artworks don’t manage knowledge—they channel it. It takes time and attention to understand an artwork’s meaning. Each piece demands a process of reconciliation, and a merging of two contexts: the artwork’s own history and the viewer’s private knowledge network. When it’s placed in a new context, its meaning evolves and expands elastically. It store... See more
Willa Köerner • A Personal Philosophy of Shared Knowledge
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Shaped intentionally or not, each medium’s fundamental materials and constraints give it a “grain” which make it bend naturally in some directions and not in others.
andymatuschak.org • Why books don’t work
Embodiment is at the very core of the work I do
Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote
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encouraging them to discover and sustain a neutral body while pursuing the art of ballet, he is attempting to keep dancers from diminishing themselves as human beings.