Tilt

an utterly new experience on many levels tonight as I went with friends to 'Tilt' contemporary dance performance.. this work is based around the experience of more than 8000 earthquakes and aftershocks since September 2010 and is powerfully visceral.... the choreographers use of music.... body movement.. space.. light and lack of light.. created a raw presentation of the multitude of powerful emotions and the shattering experienced by locals in this last year...

what struck me more than the performance - which was astounding - was the inner experience... I realised within the first few moments of dance the futility of searching for the meaning of what was happening on stage, I came into a powerfully new embodied experience .... the power of full presence to a sensory experience without the use of mind in any way..... fully tangible in the body.. heart wide, wide open.. passion pouring through into the belly and womb... a fire of fully engaging the power of the moment..

I know presence..... and I love to dance.. without mind... fully feeling the flow... the beat.. rhythm.... movement.. yet this is something else.

this raises some BIG questions ... how would it be to live without needing to know the meaning of any experience?

what if the only meaning... of any value... is full presence to this moment? to allow everything to fully touch and penetrate places within .....without needing to know anything more than that touch?

is this the doorway to the utterly, fully alive experience of what it is to be consciously human?

certainly something has changed within this one's experience...


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