Why dance?
I was thinking about meaning of words for
becoming so involved with what you are doing that it is total immersion.
Total involvement in your work as you are obsessed with its perfection.
How to express being consumed with what you love to do. Whether art,
business, teaching, science, etc., how to best express this state of being.
I started down this path by seeing a video of Sergei Polunin
in a new Diesel advertising campaign. It is incredible beauty, provocative and business
oriented all at the same time. It so moved me I had to watch it multiple
times. https://youtu.be/COXx3YTNW1s
Then, as with most events or subjects that grab my
attention, I wanted to know more. I researched and found the primary
dancer’s name, Sergei Polunin, and then wanted to learn more about him. As it
turns out, he is probably one of the greatest dancers of this century and
achieved that status at the age of 20. There is a documentary, “Dancer”,
that is about Sergei and his rise to stardom and his walking away from
different aspects to find his balance in total immersion of his art. The
end result of the documentary was a decision for him, with assistance from a
friend and fellow dancer/choreographer, to create a much more contemporary and
free form ballet solo piece. It was originally intended to be his
last.
It is breathtaking and my all-time favorite dance
piece. You see him become one with the music and the movement of his
body. To be that immersed and connected to what you are doing is
ethereal. I hope you watch it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-tW0CkvdDI
And finally, to point out that business, science, math,
etc., equally love to create, to move, to be moved. To this end, the
quote for this week is from Albert Einstein (yes again, but damn he was
smart!).
“We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we
dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for
screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.”
Namaste,
Tom
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