Interactive dance performances, more formats than the usual
Despite the dance versatility and development, the focus of this is still quite small the world, for many people the dance seems to be reserved for dance elite. But perhaps it is time that we seriously begin to develop and exploit the great potential of dance by providing dance diverse expression in all crevices - to the delight of both the perpetrator, children, men and women?
The dance - a diverse expression
The dance includes a diverse expression and takes in the same way as music place in many different places and with an infinite variety and diversity of expression. Dance can be of social character and social medias like Youtube exhibit the manifold expressions that are continuously being explored. Dancing takes place at many different scenes - both theatrical scenes and in public spaces, but the dance can also be virtual and be expressed and experienced through animations, movies or video dance. It can unfold through dance installations, where it quickly becomes a hybrid between a metaphorical expression in the interaction with the dance volatility. Last but not least, the dance can also be used in a therapeutic purpose. An area which is almost non-existent in the world, despite its infinite potential and and last but not least as social interaction, as we experience it in many contexts.
The soul of the dance
Although dance can function in so many different aspects, it doesn´t take up so much room in the world. Of course it is a shame - not just to dance in the world as an institution, but also because the dance has meanings that go into all dimensions of human life. Life is movement - and the dance is the place where movement is explored, challenged, experimented and appears as a kind of laboratory of human experience and exploration of life and reality. The many dimensions of the dance and possibilities are, first and foremost, connected with the dynamic interaction between our living body and experiences and experiences of the world.
We communicate not only through language and for informational purposes, but through bodily conditions that every moment becomes co-creative and connects us to the present. It's about the body and movement as co-creator of voting rights, feelings, rhythms and musical beauty. It is this close interweaving between body, mind and world, that is the dance medium - and pointing to the movement as a dynamic co-creative core element of human life and ways of being in the world. It is clear that this point into the dance, in ways that go into an experience where life and art are no longer separated, but are always mutually co-creators of the possible. The ordinary and mundane can be transformed and connected with the unique and amazing. The dance - as sensitive laboratory for the movement's poetics - a dynamic co-creator of every minute rhythms, thus realizing the relationship between body-mind-world.
A dance experience may be meeting with the sublime beauty. The experience of a virtuoso dance performance, can help to change our perception of our own body and of the world. We can literally connect us bodily with a dance experience because our own bodies, through our empathy "swings" in similar patterns as the dance performance. Experiencing dance can therefore open up new dimensions of experience - even if you do not even master the physical construction. The body knows and recognizes intuitive dancers' movement, which all comes from our joint movement well. Through familiarization, we can feel it - and open to the dimension of art that is about to open up new possibilities and thus for consciousness transformation.
The dance is also the body as a living picture in our understanding of life. The dance has all kinds of bodily experience from the mundane to the ecstatic - and dancing can also open the experience of completely altered states of consciousness. Dance experiences with and for children can help to develop and expand their bodily and verbal language, imagination and sensitivity to themselves and their surroundings. The list of spaces of dance can go on and there are many good arguments to let more dance into your life.
Learn to understand the dance
Seeing and experiencing dance is something we in many ways have to learn, as we must learn to listen to music or understand mathematical or visual language. Our feeling for the dance has to be cultivated in the same way as we cultivate love for the taste experience, by creating spaces to experience it with sensitivity and openly presence.
We know ourselves and the world through movement where we see, hear, taste, touch and feel the world. Life is such a constant movement and dance can be the port, which by its attention on exploration of movement can be open to a more nuanced and sensitive experience of lifes opportunities.
So get your shoes and give yourself permission to dance every moment!
Chronicle of
Ingrid Kristensen, MA., artist, dancer, choreographer
Lis Engel, MA. Scient, PhD, phenomenologist, artist, dance scholar
