Movin' Easy Dancewear

092111   Tim Hurst

A friend came to Movin’ Easy for tap shoes to begin tap dance at Tapestry Dance Academy in Austin.  I said, “This will be a great opportunity for you to deal with all that confusion in your life.”  I was speaking from experience since dance is my friend in this respect almost every day.

She asked me, “What do you mean?”  I said, “Have you taken Tai Chi’.”  “Yes.”  Do you remember how it felt to shift slowly from one side of your body to the other?”  “Kind of.”

“That’s the point.  Tai Chi integrates the breath as you shift left side, right side.  That seems subtle to us. 

“Tap dancing requires clear commitment in moving from one side to the other.  You shift from using one side of the brain, then the other.  Plus you are sealing that commitment into the hard wired rhythmic part of the brain.  Or at least you are getting into your psyche through a set of wiring used since the earliest humans.”

http://www.tapestry.org  See them Sept 24 for an opportunity to implode all cells to awake the brain.

Encoded sound is the way we make the day go round.  Each sentence we use is our lively rhythm or our sedated avoidance.

Scientists say we listen and our brains go click click.  We have to listen and tap the sound to make our brains go click click and clack.

Now only our youngest ones remember that our brains require our bodies to recreate the musical intricacies of our delight. 

Tapestry Dance Company presents Are You Listening To Me? @ The Long Center Saturday April 9 @ 2pm and 8pm, Sunday April 10 @ 2pm, a spring celebration portraying the journey of life through the love of rhythm.

“This Tapestry production challenges the audience to not only be observers but to find themselves in the characters we are portraying as we take them on a rhythmic journey with tap and spoken word. This is not your average tap dance show!” –Brenna Kuhn

512-474-9846

www.tapestry.org

For tickets www.thelongcenter.org

@Tapestry show Ears Wide Open.  Again Tapestry breaks open the true connection between performer and audience.  The bond is real, like a flamenco club where every person there seizes the moment as if it were a treasure waiting to be captured and opened in the next moment.  There is no waiting or wondering in this audience connection, no time to analyze what is liked and what is perfect.  Performers are real, in a real conversation with each other and they are talking with us the audience.  Emotions are real explorations of territory both understood and unknown.  We all agree to journey together, to feel the swell and the expanse of a mutual improvisation.

“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.