Last week I wrote about making lists or thoughts of what inspires us everyday, and what are we grateful for. Those could be one or two separate themes, depends on your mood! How did your lists go? Did you make them everyday, or a few, or even just once? Did it make you think? Or tell someone you love them everyday? Or write a book? Or move you?
Dance is a living, breathing, visual art form..You either do it, or you watch it.
This past week I have had the honor of being a judge for an international competition. What a treat for me, and so serious. I love it when dance moves me, thrills me, makes my heart palpitate with excitement. (kind of sounds like sex!) the competition is not over yet, hence, so not too much to say about it.
But I would like to get you thinking about performance. And that would be performance vs. dance for pleasure. Again those could be the same for some people. But I want to draw a separation between them, just for now. I want to know what moves you in a performance. What do you look for? What turns you on? Can you write that down?
And I don’t mean just I like it, or I love it or I hate it, (hate is a very strong word) but WHY? What moves the earth for you? And you could relate that to a painting, a short story, a book, a building, a skirt, whatever…can you say why it does what it does for you…
let me know, I’m curious! I”ll write about my judging experiences after it is over this week. Fantastic…
My dancer Cinzia will be flying in from Italy to dance with the Portland contingent of Gypsy Caravan-Karen, Carol, Gina, and myself! That will be very exciting to have her here in P-town with us for this show! Woo hoo…
You can view some of our past performances on my website, from our You Tube channel…
http://globalcaravandance.com/videos.php
