Nuance
Nuance begins with the autonomy of body parts to move in different directions- like having many subplots: this awareness reveals a world of invitations.
Aging is good for nuance: with diminishing resiliency, one depends less on muscling through, and more on the subtle details.
Finding nuance is not about being in a hyper focused state. It’s more about a relaxed awareness that can perceive a myriad of possibilities.
If you set up for something you crush 100 possibilities. How to not choose and find your way into the dance rather than willing it.
Shouted out during the jam: “Ignore all rumors of nuance!”
I love it when the dance gets shuffled up and I don’t know who is doing what.
The focus had me play a lot with my limbs tonight. Finding crevasses, nooks, crannies to push and pull against.
I was amazed that small awareness’s can lead to large movements.
I was having these energetic dances – the nuance seemed to be in the steam that was rising from them.
The dance seemed to always have a primary trajectory. The nuance was in the extra thing – an arm here, something blocking, something trailing. The subtlety was in an awareness beyond the principal motion.
This is a new dance form for me so tonight was not so much about nuance. But it was about gratitude because of how people here engaged with me, really danced with me, with what I bring to the table. I felt welcome.
The nuance in our dance was a study of the contact point and its stickiness.
Nuance was a quality of attentiveness – filling up myself from the inside – occupying myself more fully. It was letting go of an attachment to outcome and being more present with the nuance of current possibility.
So much possibility became available that it became disorienting – and that’s when it became fun.
I was taking off my kneepads to go home when the disorientation in the room suddenly had everyone dancing together. I was sucked back in. What a fun jam tonight has been.
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