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November 13, 2007

AM Response

Over the last couple of classes at the university we've been exploring Authentic Movement. It is such a new approach and idea for them it is really wonderful to see them open to the practice. Today we did some writing after each set and then shared the writing with the class. Here is what I wrote after one set, with the grammar as I wrote it:

waiting and drifting, staying focused but loosing my way. coming back
to arms and legs and wrists. watching her face her ponytail not drifting
away again but I go into thought of what comes next what will reveal
itself in the next moment, surprised at a change of level or energy and
I'm back watching, following the movement it reminds me of being tossed
and turned in large waves off the coast in an angry sea. try to stay
upright but being upended. fun, fear mixing with the sunlight. and now
my breath can anchor me to now with yesterdays and tomorrows following
on top of one another like seconds and hours. watching and finding the
gravity of a body, the nuance of a wrist the delicate movement of the breath.

Posted by Daniel Burkholder on November 13, 2007 12:17 PM


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