Tá muid damhsa ar an chiorcal
Tá muid damhsa ar an chiorcal,
Le aon thús agus gan deireadh,
The body is a microcosm of the earth
The processes of nature are guidelines to aesthetics
Nature is a healer.
To live the experience of nature,
We are dancing the circle,
With no beginning and no end,
Yet we will begin and we will end,
But in our ability to perceive as such may be faulted and limit us.
We can dance the earth with the earth.
Our breathing mirrors the winds of the world,
Our metabolism akin to fire,
When we take in nourishment, we make a little fire inside of ourselves,
We assimilate,
Our skin constantly renews and sheds,
As leaves falling each autumn,
Our body’s move and change in cyclic ways,
Just as and with the earth,
And just as the earth, we cycle between lightness and dark,
The seasons, the day and the night
Akin to each soul.
Let the image of bird come.
let the image of an animal come.
Let the image of float,
softly softly,
The duet of body and earth.
A constant,
How little do we tune?
Each foot step a new duet.
‘ To be in conversation is surely to live in the open.
To be in conversation is to think and feel on your feet and not to speak of prepared positions.
To be in conversation is to be who you are as who you are.
It is to live in what is not yet in the other
And what they are leading you to.
It is when centers meet that the world is changed.
To live in serious conversation is to live with the converse
To live in and with the contradiction
With opposites
With the other than we are
To be a place of meeting
Not a place of judgment.
To be in conversation is to enter into what flows
In and amongst and between you.
To be present in conversation is to speak of and speak to
the world
now.’
(Mair. M. Between Thee and Me.)
Be still.. breathe.
let go, the need to do anything.
sense stillness, emptiness, at the bottom of the breath,
Pause in the turning moment, between one breath and the next,
Open the inside of the body,
Open the pathways of bone, open the skin,
let the body spread open like a sail to the wind.
Move into the spaces in and around the body.
Sense endings and beginnings.
Sense the possibility of movement.
Interval, silence, emptiness.
Listen to the space between one moment and the next.
Let the body breathe, make room,
sense the body.
Sense the horizon.
‘ Listen to the voice of the wind and the ceaseless message that forms out of silence.’
( Rilke)
“ Everything that gives light is dependent on something to which it clings, in order that it may continue to shine. Thus, sun and moon cling to heaven, and grain, grass and trees cling to earth.’ (I Ching)
‘ To dance is human, and humanity almost universally expresses itself in dance. Dance interweaves with other aspects of human life, such as communication and learning, belief systems, social realizations and political dynamics, loving and fighting, and urbanization and change, and evolutionary development of the human species. When dance is surprised for moral, religious or political reasons, it raises, phoenix like to assert the essence of humanity. Dance appears primary among aesthetic forms and, the instrument of dance, the human body, contributes to other forms, which use its spatial, temporal and kinetic elements. Such dance dynamics preserve in the broad spectrum of non dance aesthetic phenomena.’ Hanna. L. J (1979) To Dance is Human
To question only lightly.
To return to the sensation of the hand on the heart,
the sun on the chest,
the wind the hair,
the seal swimming beside,
and the boots which fell in the sea
after falling over.
to keep light
and
to stay afloat
and
to keep circling
and.
.
( Explorations of Carraig Ceasail; Eire. November 2014)
Urban re:passages 