Thursday, December 20, 2007

  • stepping back into the world of dance

    i think i decided i need to keep dancing.. if not because i've put on a bit of weight since i stopped.. or even for the reason that i think i've forgotten how, definitely going back to dancing because it was something i was proud of. i just want to have something to be proud of... something that i'm good at and that no one can take away from me. it occurred to me yesterday while i was dancing with my friend xanthia.. she wasn't really dancing as much as she was sitting on a chair and flipping through the music on my laptop.. that my once voluminous array of corporeal vocabulary had been reduced to nothing more than a few pat de chats and and simple jetes... bleh... what ever became of me? anyway... in the course of music flipping xanthia struck a chord for me... she said.. "stop thinking about choreographing.. just dance." and then i realized... i wasn't dancing as much as i was trying to think of what to do next. it's what my business instructor expresses as paralysis by analysis (overthinking). and so xanthia turned on a song that i liked and i just kinda let loose... and within minutes... if not seconds, i was able to string together a nice few sets of movement. i was proud... and even more so, i was realizing that i still had it. -Lan

    ps. i guess that it's not about how much i can do it, it's that i have to just do it when i can.

Comments (2)

  • orchidgrass

    what kind of dance?
  • lillypicturadora

    alan ramierez. the power of dance is very often underestimated. it's like music, it's has subliminal messages and moves the soul to a place that words will NEVER reach or come close to, choreographed or not. aNd it will move you whether you know it or not. and especially for you, dance is something that has been running in your veins since your first turn, your first pas de bouree, the moment you felt the warmth of the lights coming from the wings, and the community and love of your compadres. The truth is dance is life and it demands you and the people around you which is love and where there is love, the Spirit is strong. I hope i don't come off as a hippie or a guru or offensive with a religious twang to it, but maybe as an ordinary radical, i know you understand the spirit of dance and i must say that God loves you completely and has made you to feel and know his Spirit :) That moment, with laptop music on and movement pouring out, is golden, is real and is true.

    love you mucho alan,

    God bless you oox,

    lilly

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