Music, Dance, Love

"All art constantly aspires to the condition of music."


The logic behind this quote is that music is the closest we can get to embodying and touching the human soul. It is something that transcends words, and, although words often accompany it, they are nothing compared to the language that music itself speaks. Music consumes us. It envelopes us. And sound, unlike sight, which many (all?) of the other arts rely on, is nondirectional. It takes us to places, unlike, say, a painting, which gives us something to look at rather than something to be consumed by.

Movement, likewise, can have that enveloping quality about it. I say this from the perspective of someone who has experienced moments of transcendence via yoga/gymnastics/dance/movement that are outside of myself. In the act of doing, it is transcendent. And maybe because I have experienced that, the act of seeing, for me at least, is transcendent because I can project this experience unto the dancer. Music has the capacity to change our mood in an instant. Dance is a gateway to discovery.

Music, Dance, Love.. they are really all the same thing. They are about transcendence.. about experiencing a yourself that is not yourself, and, thus, when I hear beautiful music, I am in love and when I dance beautiful dances, I am in love.

When I dance.. and I'm talking very specifically about dancing that transcends (the electric slide can and cannot be this depending on how we approach it), I am outside of myself, something greater than myself, something that escapes the confines of words or identification. I am moving, feeling, being, becoming.

And being in love and love are truly not the same thing. Being in love is sort of unidentifiable, although I do think that the act of loving can be offer us a path towards being in love.... you can't make yourself fall in love, but you can find a way to get to a place where it may or may not happen. No expectations! Just witnessing the progression through stages... which is why I do not believe in love at first sight.. no struggle involved, no love involved, just pure "falling in love?" Doesn't seem possible. Maybe you can meet someone and "just know" that that person may or may not be the person that you aspire to fall in love with and then wait an see if it happens?

Play beautiful music and dance beautiful dances, not because you know how to, but because love is all there is. Everything else is false, socially constructed - just a way to survive, to get by from day to day. And so music and dance are all there is. And music and dance are love. AND LOVE IS ALL THERE IS!