As Scott Thurston explains in the acknowledgments, "The accounts of dance and movement in the pages that follow relate to my experiences of dancing the Five Rhythms--a movement practice devised by Gabrielle Roth." Here are some of my favourite passages from the collection:
From Section I, Boundaries:
Get out of your own way--to get
in the way of being guided.
Each line equivalent to the whole
book of your fear of dissolution.
Openly revealed, it conceals
a guarantee of a new body.
From Section I, Boundaries:
Get out of your own way--to get
in the way of being guided.
Each line equivalent to the whole
book of your fear of dissolution.
Openly revealed, it conceals
a guarantee of a new body.
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The dancer holds a space for other dancers. I bring a few neatly-parcelled luxury anxieties to sit and unwrap in a clutch of unfolded limbs. [...] To move at emotional depth I need to keep my thoughts in play.
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Trying to outrun the ego and mourn its lost authority.
*
I'll find it just as well in the un-like.
*
If this is civilization it starts to unravel
in the corner of vision.
*
In the dance--pain, discomfort, exhaustion, injury start to expose the lineaments, the estate of one's self....
from Section II, Compassion:
from Section IV Relation:
What constitutes wildness? Binding both the preserved and the destroyed, resistance can be experienced as pain--memory needs to change all the time.
from Section IV Relation:
The tension between intention to move and moving; between dancing by oneself and with others.
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I recognised I'd brought a demon with me which I named 'Without Knowledge I Am Nothing.'
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Approaching knowledge as an encounter.
from Section V, Turning:
...turning and returning
with intricate delay.
from Section V, Turning:
...turning and returning
with intricate delay.
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Trust me to buck the trend in coherency:
in the give and take of talk our mutual
knowledge gives way to being known
on this bleak rib of land, curving upward.
The longing of the endless hills--mynydd
hireaethog--when speech dies on the wind.
*
Moving with the shape of space
creates a wild line. Start to turn
and learn how to serve you and you
trust me.
*
The shape of a choice: lust, trash,
truth, that grace arises from grace.
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