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How to dance without trying to dance

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There’s a particular way of being we inhabit when dancing. Dancing is a kind of availability, a capacity to respond to the invitations of each moment in a receptive, fluid and open way. When dancing without a partner, say in a club or at a concert, the music is your dance partner. Your body seems to move of its own accord as the energies of the rhythms and melodies play easily and elegantly across your frame, where the only wrong way to dance is to not to dance at all. When dancing with a partner you are always in active communication, in an emergent, wordless dialogue. As the leader you are aware of the music, the space around you, your body, your partner’s body, your partner’s attention and your own intention, which you both assert and allow to emerge. As the follower you listen for the most subtle of suggestions and give a constantly renewing consent to be led, without anticipating the moment ahead or resisting the moment before. You each maintain your power, refusing to give up res

How to dance without trying to dance How to dance without trying to dance By Michael Ashcroft | 6 min read 19th February 2022 --> Photo by Ardian Lumi on Unsplash There’s a particular way of being we inhabit when dancing. Dancing is a kind of availability, a capacity to respond to the invitations of each moment in a receptive, fluid and open way. When dancing without a partner, say in a club or at a concert, the music is your dance partner. Your body seems to move of its own accord as the energies of the rhythms and melodies play easily and elegantly across your frame, where the only wrong way

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