invitations

Following my spine today i really felt this expansiveness and spaciouseness in where the spine can move within, changing and transforming its shape in infinite ways-twisting, coiling, bending, elongating like a bizarre accordian-moving from the back body to the front body -curving to one side and the other. i found myself rooting from various points of contact that my partner gave me feeling how i could isolate movement above and below that point-also feeling how i could move a particalar area or vertebra inside. feeling like a snake-that can grow one part of its body and then suck that part in towards itself to move forward.

I like margarets comment here about the three-dimensionality-and the fact that Julie Ann began to touch her front body-which i saw her doing. It was a good evolution of this idea. I wonder about the quality or the different sensation that Margaret felt while doing this. I think that ultimately this sort of exploration could be done by giving feedback into any part of oursleves.

Different images and language always come to my mind- So, I began to think about invitations-as I was creating space. I am creating a space for someone to inhabit-and I want my friend-my partner to be interested to join-so I thought, I am inviting them to be with me-I am inviting them to follow me. I can invite them in obvious ways like pulling them, grabbing their hand. And then different parts of myself can be like my hand-pulling them into my space.

I enjoyed watching everyone dance tonite-It was sooo nice to see such a wide range of exploration, from the light and gentle and human to the violent and uncertain- thanks to all.



I began to think about vacuuming today