Thresholds.
I often pay them no attention. I rarely take the time to mark their significance. This dance is about noticing my habits and making a new choice, of allowing the passing, the crossing from one stage to the next to have significance in the act of doing it.
I typically am at the new stage before I leave the old. I fast forward, jump ahead, am present in a life that hasn't even begun, pushing, pulling, and prodding. I see others stay in the past, residing in where they just were, letting it sink it, blinders up to the new reality. I want to experiencing both at once, to be here in the now while it is all swirling around me, inviting a presence that can see the transition as it is happening. It come down to attention; where am I? Can I ground myself in the experience so as not to rush ahead?
In the dance we are researching thresholds and through the movement I am developing my capacity to attend to what I am experiencing in this moment. I am practicing how to wait, how to stay present within, how to stand still in the midst of drastic change. Can I learn to love liminality, the in-between, the not quite there, the moments when I have not arrived? Can I stop planning and jumping ahead, wishing and wanting time to pass? Can I pay attention to the moments of transition, quietly listening and ready? The dance is teaching me, it is giving me a space to practice.
I often pay them no attention. I rarely take the time to mark their significance. This dance is about noticing my habits and making a new choice, of allowing the passing, the crossing from one stage to the next to have significance in the act of doing it.
I typically am at the new stage before I leave the old. I fast forward, jump ahead, am present in a life that hasn't even begun, pushing, pulling, and prodding. I see others stay in the past, residing in where they just were, letting it sink it, blinders up to the new reality. I want to experiencing both at once, to be here in the now while it is all swirling around me, inviting a presence that can see the transition as it is happening. It come down to attention; where am I? Can I ground myself in the experience so as not to rush ahead?
In the dance we are researching thresholds and through the movement I am developing my capacity to attend to what I am experiencing in this moment. I am practicing how to wait, how to stay present within, how to stand still in the midst of drastic change. Can I learn to love liminality, the in-between, the not quite there, the moments when I have not arrived? Can I stop planning and jumping ahead, wishing and wanting time to pass? Can I pay attention to the moments of transition, quietly listening and ready? The dance is teaching me, it is giving me a space to practice.