Ohad Naharin - The Talks
The practice, simply, is a way of thinking and moving that we use to enhance life. It is available to anyone. We listen to our song, watch how things move, imagine the arrangement, then act. We dance together backwards into the future, giving influence and taking it, forming and being formed. This is dance of eternity, and the shape of design.
Frank Chimero • The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero
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Dance is for all who desire to move expressively, with rhythm, or in the spirit of the moment. Dance is global and primal, not just for those who train to perform on stage. As somatic innovator Gabrielle Roth liked to say: “If you have a body, you are a dancer.”
Catherine Schaeffer • Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch
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I would love to see a world where more dance movements are popping up in this way, where it’s not only about learning a particular style of dance, perfecting technique, or getting a workout, but rather freedom of expression, healing, and connectivity through movement.
Jess Grippo • DANCE WITH THIS BOOK: Start a Revolution with Your Body, Alone in Your Room.
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.
Liz Koch • Core Awareness, Revised Edition: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise, and Dance
Lightness and grace are dynamic expressions in motion, that is, 360 degrees of experience, as felt on the occasion. It gets quite tricky in a movement classroom to work on still frames in an analytical, two-dimensional format. It leaves the movement centre disengaged. This is the body language seeking to be heard. It speaks for itself in a sense. I
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The ballet is a stylized parade of myths from the distant past, but for Bangalter the project also has a kind of post-apocalyptic, back-to-basics optimism: “After everything, the violin will remain.”
Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Reveals Himself: As a Composer
Ian Vanagas added
como escreve a artista e dançarina Danielli Mendes, “a falta de vazio em nossas articulações está limitando nossos movimentos, prejudicando nossa organicidade, e sobretudo, trazendo a falsa ideia de que nossa matéria é fixa, que a forma é algo que não tem plasticidade e que, portanto, não se regenera”.
Ana C. G. Marques • antes de qualquer coisa, faça absolutamente nada - O Futuro das Coisas
Gustavo Simas added
Ideas, which are simple, meet the world in a dance, with an element of tension or give and take. In their manifestations, ideas always change. If they are forced too rigidly onto the world, then there are bound to be damaging results—the world bites back. This is why I advocate evolutionary, experimental implementation of ideas rather than diktat o
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