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Tapestry Dance Company rearranged my cells.  I said goodbye to my DNA.

Left brain gave way to meticulous aboriginal choruses.  Right brain collapsed into brief slow motion silences.  In those spaces of mimetic time, simple circular arms took my entire body tumbling over waterfalls to one side, then roaring back to the other side.

Sound erupted from my entire body forming one word, “YES.”  I will never be the me that I knew before being immersed in this much clarity. 

Never the Same Again,  Tim Hurst,  092611,  Tapestry Dance Company, “The Souls of Our Feet”  September 24, 2011

Dedication to my partners and teachers who have loved this dance with me.

Kindness in the foot placing itself.

Kindness in the breath receiving itself.

Kindness way behind the eyes and yes deeply seeing behind trillions of intimate cells.

Kindness dancing inside precious joints undulating outwards towards the most open embrace.

Kindness drawing only nourishment from the seas we call our atmosphere.

Kindness insisting that harm is not our friend.

Kindness reaching bringing embracing our partners in this our dance.

Kindness timing our rhythmic spaces to taste tender and tragic trial and error.

Kindness within multiple moments of rest ready for momentum to exude life.

Kindness allowing dance to bubble and travel through our rapids along our placid stretches passage upon passage.

Kindness greeting our enemies offering to offend our visceral fears, our hidden wishes, our clutch on darkness.

Kindness to greet our overwhelming dance of delight overflowing from every corner of our known and unknown vulnerabilities.

Tim Hurst 092311

http://www.balletaustin.org/  Stephen Mills musicaliy brings an extraordinary dimension to Mozart.

Children’s brains eat Mozart like candy.  What are adults waiting for—a ballet to illustrate Mozart for our stalled out brains.

Cartoons won’t do.  Only the deepest level of intricate movement and emotion can explode Mozart’s full delight into our senses.  Only a Mozart ballet feast will integrate the playful melodies we take for granted, send rhythmic delight bouncing through our lethargic cells, and insist that we rearrange our thoughts to take courage once again.

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Choreography that slices open the melon, exposing the intricate life of a growing pod.  The juices rise to heal the incision willingly offering seeds and pulp for nourishment and pleasure.

Choreography that splashes the taste of chocolate in explosive man and woman, I not only savor their melding of darkness and sweetness, I bounce with them over and against and through the bitterness of cigar.

Choreography that stuns me with possibility for union, the sweet burst in my mouth, the sound of rich chocolate folding and gushing over my tongue and into every cell with a pleasure of longing for this moment to never end.

And in this moment of longing, choreography points the way inside man and woman where pain envelops exuberance and births new life.

Thank you to:  Voice Dance Company, Gina Patterson choreographer  Dance Institute Austin 051910 

from: Tim Hurst

Last day of Sale at Movin Easy, Sunday 081310 What’s the buzz on a Sale at Movin’ Easy in 2010?  Fabulous is all there is of course.  Fabulous dancers and moms and dads rubbing elbows in a space that should seem as huge as Macy’s.  Nooks and crannies of fabulous treasures capturing all eyes with colors and bodice shapes and stiletto-esk shapely shoes.

That’s not all of the fabulous of course.  Movin Easy has a new fabulous shape, blossoming with a fabulous new dancing floor and two new windows right in front bringing even more fabulousness of splashing light.

And not to forget even for a second the fabulous attention and celebration each dancer receives from the Dancewear Specialists at Movin Easy.  On a busy morning it is much like laughing fairies rushing through the woods guiding the princes and princesses and all their attendants and patrons and their admirers to find the perfect fitting slipper and the most flattering wardrobe.

Whether I join the flurry of the fairies or simply explore the woodland stories dancing through each person there, I am thoroughly in awe of so much flourishing fabulousness.

“It’s presence.  Everyone has the rhythm I have.  I have learned to be present to it.”  Acia Gray    What is that presence?

What is that presence?  Presence to the rhythm, way deep I would say, deeper that the feet learning to take a signal and create a shape where no shape was before.  Is it presence to the rhythm of the feet, or the personality?  Or is it presence to the sound of the steps I take and the sound of the tumble when I stumble?  Or is it presence to the bang and the burst and the whir that carries me through a day?  Or is it presence to the rhythm, the one I hear pounding on my door when I take a breath during the day or wake up wondering about in the middle of a dream?  Or is it presence to the mysterious interplay of my heart and my spleen and all the juices that run around in me making me laugh and cry day to day and night to night?  Or is it presence to the beat of the volley of me to me and me to you and us to us?  Or is it just presence to the soul who captains and crews, who croons and woos, who flays and wails and finally decides to walk on water like he was meant to in the first place.

The rhythm I need I find @Tapestry.  2010 show now.  With Tapestry, I eat rhythm.  Meat and potatos, sweet and sour, jelly roll and dilly bar, hum a little, slide a lot, takes away the casserole and brings on the whole enchilada.  My cells devour  Tapestry rhythm.  My rhythm dishes it out, slurps it in.    My brain catches and matches signal for signal every slap skat splat.  OK my body, well fed, well read, are you trained to take on the slopes when you go out that door?

Psychologists search for why we dance.  For me the question is similiar to why we worship or why we hope or why we love.  Here are three takes on the topic. 

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2010/04/dance-research.aspx

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2010/04/dance.aspx

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2010/04/ancient-dance.aspx