Movement is our first language

The light has sprung ahead; it really feels like we are coming to the end of winter. There are all the signs around the studio announcing this beautiful change: snow boots being exchanged for sockless shoes, heavy coats replaced with easy sweat-shirts, and the light that has been hiding in our westward windows has found its way back in.

All this happened in the quiet exchange of time and ever so present in our change of movement. Movement is our first language. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you are from, what circumstances are yours, this is true. I feel massively in awe of this.  This is what we all know and what connects us. If we can not speak, our actions become our language.  Absolutely there are fancy steps and high kicks that are great acts of being evocative dance artists and storytellers. There are also simple acts of movement that transcend powerfully. A smile, a touch of hand, an open door, a heart beating and the way one moves across their own time are movements that belong to all of us. This is what unites our humanity.

 When there is clarity in the body, there is exquisite truth in expression.  This is why we steadfastly work and play week after week detailing the infinite possibilities and expanding our human virtuosity. This makes such beautiful dancers and humans. I am so grateful to everyone for the joyful way you have wandered in contributing your movement to all that we do here.

It truly matters.