Releasing Emotion Through Dance

"Releasing Emotion Through Dance"," If thought about, all things dance.
 For anything to exist it has to have motion or as the great philosopher Alan Watts said; resonance.
 Even what we would ordinarily consider to be static stationary objects, at a deeper level have movement.
 All dance requires space - that is for anything to move it requires somewhere to move.
 This is well documented in Vedic literature where the entire universe is perceived as a symphony of sounds produced by vibrations of energy.


Dance as one would more commonly think is expressive movement - and it is interesting to observe the similarity of the words motion and emotion - or one could say; Motion = emotion! Perhaps this is why dance is creative in nature and can have such a powerful impact on how one feels and expresses themselves.
 Interestingly enough our body language says far more than our words - according to Ray L Birdwhistell who carried out research in the 1970's named kinesis and context.
 This makes me think of the proverb:-

Actions speak louder than words!

Perhaps this is why dance is able to convey such strong emotion and can tell a story.
 Music is also what makes dance fun exciting and invigorating or slow relaxed and introspective.
 As with music, dance can also involve solo to group performances with some styles of dance only being suitable for you and your partner, such as swing or ballroom! Dance is a wonderful form of expression and can be fluid, rhythmic or gesticulatory.
 With our bodies so perfectly created to express such movement we can release powerful emotions and in turn heal our bodies of stress, psychological burden and repressed memories.
 Motion or dance allows us to explore emotion because when we move in specific ways we invariably experience specific states.


With an art form such as dance using words to describe it is like a student of Zen trying to explain Zen.
 Dance could very well be a Zen experience.
 So whenever you're feeling low or stuck in negativity get into the rhythm and swing it!

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