why we dance...

New book:  The necessity of theater:  the art of watching and being watched.   This is the question that rules my life.  Why do we dance?  Dance is a passion that has ruined my life.  It just got in the way of doing normal things in a normal way, so I need to justify it so I can continue doing it.  Dancers think differently .... they think without words, in packets of energy (quanta!).  We have to develop this skill to be choreographers, and as we practice this form of thinking we develop neural connections that take us away from normalcy.  That's what I think anyway.  

(Which is why a blog is so necessary.  Again, for me, not for You.  I need to talk to someone in order to manifest these quanta in words.  I believe in the efficacy of "dialogic thinking"  (Vygotsky and education: ) Thinking in dialogue, so that what starts as a small kernel of an idea in my head, latches onto a kernel in your head and together those kernels starting spinning into a pas de deux that means something exponentially bigger.)

So, this book seems important to me.  Is it important for my choreography students next semester?  Do they care WHY they are making dances?  Or do they just want to make dances and see what transpires?  Will too many "words" get in the way of their developing their ability to manifest and play with nonverbal energy quanta?