Monday, September 15, 2014

From a Defense of Dance Natalie Rodriguez p6


A Defense of Poetry: Rewrite

Dancers, according to the circumstance of the period and nation in which the surfaced, were called, in the earlier era of the world, Angels of movement, or commissioner of energy: a dancer fundamentally comprises and unites both these characters. For us movers not only passionately possess the zeal of physical expression, and deliver such emotions in a pure, authentic manner, but we possess capture the tension felt between our bones, and the force is brought upon the eye in a state that looks effortlessly angelic. Not that I claim all dancers to be as holy as an angel in the sense that they cannot express the darkest of emotions also, or that all dancers are restricted to only willingly directing their actions to an ultimate upper power: such the display of superstition, which would make a dancer limited to one field of expression, rather than dancers being unbounded to any superior rule or guideline. A dancer participates in the eternal, the infinite, and the anatomy of one; as far as what is corresponding to our conceptions, inability, time and place are not. The physical forms which express the frame of mind of time, and he differences of persons, and the distinction of space, are adaptable with every classification of movement without injuring the well-being of the body itself; and the choruses of the book “Conditioning for Dance, “and the first teachings of Louis XIV of France (The Sun King) would more than prove and be examples of this fact, if the limits of this essay did not prevent operation.

Culture, form, breath, expression, and the natural ability of human bodies, are all instruments and materials of dance; they may be called dance but the dexterity it takes to unite all these skills is not one gained over night. But dance is a more physically straining sense of expression than poetry, language, painting, and music, which are created with an art assertion that is more capable by the less physical, whose bodies are less explored or worn, and the exhaustion from athletic performances aren’t quite as intact. And this springs from the nature itself of dance, which is more direct, physical representation of actions and passions for life being declared through exercise, and is susceptible of more diverse and tough combinations, than poetry, language, and painting. For dance is expeditiously produced by the merge of imagination and movement and has relations to athleticism with the arts; but all other materials, instruments, tools are not as pure and classic as using the body itself, which our species lives and thrives in. The breath is as the gods viewing an enchanted overwhelming of emotions, the endurance is as Poseidon ruling the roaring sea, the tolerance and patience of mastery like the Jack of all trades…

Dancers are the pharaohs of a graphic, yet physical representation of inspiration; the endurance of a God foreshadows genuine finesse; the breathe acting as a life source that provides nutrients for our physique like the art of dance does, and if you feel not what they inspire, a great deprivation has heaped upon you. The influence that moves with the flow of the body and devotedly moves senses. Dancers are the pure, silent instruments of the world.

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