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3 Dancers, 4 Chairs, 26 Words

What a fantastic performance! First of all, thank you Mat & Aynsley
for this amazing space of Mt Tremper Arts. So comfortable, it's like
home, with performances that turn an internal vision inside out...

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What was that ? Who is this word
And serene was this life this one who asked who knew who went before.
Words can dance and dancers be words
Beginning

The simple prologue set the stage, one woman setting down placards of
words and bits of words that formed simple sentences, slowly, with
solemn care and meaning. "before there were 3..."

Words as sound, as movement, as shape, color, line, signifying what
the word is, and sometimes, painfully, the dance conveying the
opposite of the word. In the beginning, it was like learning words for
the first time, what they are, how they are formed in the mouth, what
they may do to one's body and to others. A childlike exploration with
a mature attention to detail.

A pared down version of the inside of the mind. One mind, so familiar
to us all. The struggles to remember the words, the thrill of playing,
the agony of not yet conveying.

Meditative, quiet, serenity holding frenzied raw confusion. Pace
changing from contemplative to jarring, opening the senses in the slow
bits, feeling the full force of the crazy pace, so caught up in what
seems to be true at
the time, in juxtaposition, dropping in the pit of my stomach,
familiarity, not a place for pretense.

The words played across the faces of the dancers, of the people,
framing the curve of the cheek with an S, blocking out an eye with an
M, words playing across their clothes, nose, head and shoulders above
the rest. A play where
the order of the words is not always the meaning most satisfying, most
related to what the feeling of this may be.

How was it? The dancer repeated "beginning," unexpected chills through
my arms and legs, a keenness of attention, a rawness of perception, a
fluctuation of layers that's only possible within the deeply held
holding of
many hands of dancers and choreographer embracing calmly all of our
wild frenetic thoughtful lives.

In the end, I just say thank you.

Amy Shoko Brown offers workshops and private sessions in Healing through Creativity. She also teaches qigong in Phoencia and cohosts Be the Change: Voices of Action every Wednesday on 91.3 WVKR.