**** Continuity ****
-- The continuity of my practice of CI over time
-- Continuity from moment to moment in a dance (Follow through: one moment being the seed of the next)
-- Continuity from dance to dance
-- Continuity when I leave here
-- the continuity of presence
Here are the notes from people’s comments at the end of the jam:
* Going for continuity created a lot of circles and spirals.
* I used the focus to play with being the consistent one—the one who is there for the other person. It’s not sparkly, or shines, or is even noticed—but it creates a trust and relaxation in the dance.
* A favorite passion of mine is letting the momentum go a little farther, a little longer to see where we end up.
* In one dance tonight I wanted to experience a continuity of surprises.
* The through line for me this evening was the themes that carried through all the dances.
* After we bumped, my partner said, “I’m sorry.” And then she remembered the theme and said, “I’m sorry, and now we can continue.”
* I was aware of the long ark of my dancing life. I’m injured now-- I’m limited-- but dancing with this theme allowed me accept this more, feeling that it will change.
* There is continuity of habits. Tonight I noticed how a limitation makes us aware of our patterns and creates new pathways.
* It’s often hard for me to enter dances. My question was how can my ‘continuity’ be to continue dancing after a duet is over and not feel everybody else is having great duets.
* How do I have a presence in the moment no matter how connected or disconnected I might feel?
* In one dance I imagined I was sucking my partner up like a gastropod. (gas?tro?pod n
a mollusk that has a head with eyes, and a large flattened foot, and often a single shell. Limpets, snails, and slugs are types of gastropod.)
* Continuity is not attaching to a single moment in the present or anticipated in the future. It’s a series of connected, disconnected, and semi-connected moments.
* Dancing with continuity, without stopping the momentum, created an intoxication that verged on the blissful.
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