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| Picture artist unknown |
Preparing to dance, I stretch
out my sense-antennas. I scan the distance
by listening through my body. I smell, I observe and finally notice. Upon gestural agreement, gently, I touch my
partner. We get closer and closer.
We drop into the meeting
of our skins - the periphery at which we affirm our separation, as well as begin
to flow into and through one another. And, as we softly spread along this permeable
boundary, our breathing, now via the skin pores, begins to expand and relax too.
At that moment, I begin
to feel a pull towards the darkness of the inner caves and caverns of our
bodies – the deeper intimacy. I turn to the inner eye, the senses that 'see' in the dark. And within this realm
of imagination, but also simply bodily knowing, I begin to track, not only
shapes, but also the core impulses of our movement.
I continue to sense, although
that sense has now become a full-bodied feeling. I half or even fully close my
eyes. Then, as I drop into trusting this feeling even more, I open to receive.
Like a flower opening its petals to the bee – I open to receive that, which
only until a minute ago I perceived as Other.
Receiving has now become
giving, and at that point, our dance, a flight – a flight into what is joyfully
unknown!
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