To Dance is More Than Just a Radical Act

For Kimerer L. LaMothe, dance is more than just movement.  “Dancing, we cultivate a sensory awareness that helps us discern how to think and feel and act in ways that honor nature – the nature surging through our veins, crackling in our thoughts, roaming with our senses, moving in and out of our bodily selves…” It is an integrative and imaginative interaction that invites “relationships with the nature at work in us, through us, and around us.” Kimerer relates four experiences in which the dance unfolds: the movement I make is making me; pleasure is the path; desire is the source; the goal is to play. Dancing is another way of embracing and “being with” nature. “Our greatest strength as human beings and our greatest hope for survival on this planet lies in working with rather than against the forces of nature.”