Through the dance, we ripen on the vine.

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Dances, like sunshine, yearn to touch everything.

Dances, like darkness, yearn to engulf everything.

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The dance is a place to be intimate with wholeness

in the sense that it is an opportunity for every area 

of human experience to be known within,

and loved.

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The dance itself is a theatre for life to play itself out within.

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Beauty, here, is not necessarily found in technical skill,

but revealed; born; gifted, through some kind of honesty.

Called out of a being participating in the diverse and

divine reality of corporeal wilderness.

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In this participation, this love-making intertwine 

of the here and not-here, the hidden and gifted,

the lit and the rhythmic, the known and the opening,

we say to Beauty: "Let me see your face."

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And so it is to dance, in a silent body that speaks volumes

in dialogue with the bright dark noise of creation.

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In my workshops we play with qualities and presences of things.

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We play with qualities of intimacy with moment and character.

We play with presences of the real through the imaginal.

We remember we are both remnants and entirely new:

A memory of something that was and is ever becoming.

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Unmade and remade - we arrive as we are, we empty, we change.

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I'm interested in dancers tarnished by the oils on the Dance's fingers;

Dancers touched over and over, in every place, by life.

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Within this body poetic is where we want to turn our ear,

towards the starlight rippling on the water in the well

to glimpse, for a moment, the unspoken. 

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This is a place to embrace our dappled nature. 

This is a place to embrace our mystery.

This is a place to embrace our flaws.

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Our bodies are integral to our persons. 

Our humanity is integral to our bodies.

Within our humanity is all that is beyond humanity.

Within our bodies is all that is beyond our bodies.

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Each thing has its dance, each thing has its word.

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We are knitted into cosmos;

Kin with river, star, thuja, ant and dandelion.

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We are land, being. We are being land; breathed.

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