The Deep Intense Therapeutic Nature Of Dance
I love to dance. I always have. Though I was not very good at it when I first started taking ballet in 4th grade - which only lasted a few weeks because I had no interest in the meticulous repetitive body conditioning and discipline it would take for me to have good form to leap like a gazelle across the room. I just wanted to leap across the room however I could – because I felt so enlivened when I tried. Ballet class included none of that. So I quit, early and never tried such a serious form again. As a kid I was lanky, very gawky and awkward… ungraceful. I wanted to know how to dance well so I could have physical poise, and confidence in moving through space. I was much more athletically strong than most or all of my peers, from grade school on into college. Initially this might have began because we had a pull up bar across the entrance of our kitchen. Ahhh to be fair, it was a 2” x 4” beam that we put a half round dowel along on each top ed...