Tomorrow is another day.

Poem is based on the reading How Dancing is Built: The Making of in a Rhythm,

A choreographer’s creative process in real time by Wayne McGregor at TEDGlobal

2012, and Inside The Pillow Lab: INSPIRIT – April 22, 2021.

The Journey of Dancing

Is a lustrous acting

Performing a kinetic situation

Transforming our fixations

Swept away by music and feeling

Working on our inner healing

We stand by watching others dance

In order to be able to advance

Improvising with others is a start

Put your heart in the art

Scan your body

Head to toe

Don’t be groggy

Follow the flow

Imagine the situation, the tone

The meditation, the zone, the throne

With the pleasure of moving

Always improving

Part-by-body-part

Slice through space with your wisdom

Make the dance floor your kingdom

By landscape, by coddled memory, by touch

I acknowledge whos in the room in a rush

Hours we’ve spent examining

What transpires when dance is happening

Simple structure

Don’t let it rupture

Alternating solo passes

In depth of everyones gazes

Absorb at face value

The flow of dancing follows the que

Back and forth play of call and response

Till we slowly start to abscond

Meaningful strategy and effort

Sometimes stepping out of our comfort

Mix of folks, new and old

Combining efforts, creative and bold

Absorbing the pressures

Examining the textures

Dynamic direction

Taking Action

We Understand in a particular way

Some days we must witness decay

The body is speaking in time and event

Never focused on the hours spent

Growing and understanding eachother

Nurturing like a mother

Each moment bleeds into the next

One doesn’t even need context