Communing with the Land

I have tangoed only two nights...so many more to go! Tango can make you rather pensive, wondering and cement ideas in your head. It is more than a dance, but a story that you create in these whirling circles. You relive the past, the present, and


create your future. As you are guided, sometimes cheek to cheek, by your partner, you feel that there is this symbiotic rhythm of the dance that can only be created when two people give up their usual preoccupation with self to tell a story together.

It is difficult to tell a story simultaneously. Believe me, I've tried, many times: in Movement for Actors. I think it takes a true Butoh master to be able to create simultaneous speech in chorus.

On the dance floor, all voices become one as different stories unfold. I have felt that dance is a form of worship and that through dancing I am expressing perhaps the most important aspects of who I am, without saying a word.