When curiosity spills over into fascination…
Here are some of the observation made at the end of the jam:
*** I noticed my curiosity seemed to be initiated by a thought… but when I entered something – based on a mental decision – then something else would happen and fascination would occur.
*** I entered the room late and saw all these duets, many looking similar… Then some dancers started doing movement that seemed like an advertisement for curiosity, and it drew me in.
*** Someone predicted at the beginning that the jam might be all duets, and it seemed to come true.
*** The jam seemed spacious… it took up the whole room, even the parts we often don’t use.
*** Fascination created an attentiveness - - not just exploration.
*** I noticed dances that lasted longer. The focus seemed to need more time. Also noticed that my most engaged dance was a fascination with what was physically possible – rich, interesting pieces fitting together.
*** At one point I had a big thought that ground me to a halt and I got fascinated with it (something I’m worried about). In movement, sometimes as you get fascinated by something, you slow down or even stop… So I was wondering about the fascination in stillness—where does it go after that?
*** A dance can get subtler and subtler if you choose to descend into stillness. (The mathematical minds on one side of the closing circle introduce the concept of “asymptote” -- on a graph, a curve, which is approached but never reached.)
*** I stayed in one dance for a long time and explored the elements of “am I choosing, or am I being compelled?” – the idea of volition… Is it me or not entirely me creating the dance?
*** Having a child in the room tonight added to the atmosphere of curiosity.
*** The word “spills” in the focus caught me. I kept finding myself going backwards, and not focusing on righting myself again.
*** This was an easy focus to enter into. It calls me into magnification of my fascination, like turning up the dial on a microscope as I delved deeper
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