Up here, the wind passes no longer around an aware spine that knows its grounded balance well… This spine is different... This spine of sky... With legs heavy, bounded to a ground that has body in a realm defiant of forgotten gravity, this body now ventures on the plane of grounded ancestry... This body remembers a home where it never lived, steps in paths laid out before, trodden by those it has never 'known'. Yet, these stilts have initiated this body into a place of famili

How do we shift the tragedy that strives towards aesthetic impossibilities, irresponsible athleticisms and cruel cultural inheritances which have nothing to do with a moving body's merit? How do we teach the value of life, the honour of all bodies? Dance educators, moving artists, body philosophers, does it not start with us... Continue and evolve with us? Does it not start with guiding the bodies we teach, through example, respect, compassion and love for the first, most sa

“Technically speaking, our bodies are not exactly ours. What we call a body is an open-ended experiment, the present result of billions of years of an ongoing universal process that is in constant flux, arranging, re-arranging, and experimenting as new formations come into existence. The continuum of life on land takes place within the galaxy and humans alike.”- Emilie Conrad (1934 - 2014) Life on Land, by Emilie Conrad, founder of Continuum Movement gave us LIFE at first rea

“As site of memory, retention, resistance, burial, insistence, Body knows no bounds, seeks no limit, chooses its questions and at times its own answers.” - eNK™ We ask, always, what is buried in us? What layers of being breathe through our melanin, musculature, skeletal framework, patterns of emotion and reaction, cultural conditionings, social expectations, gender stamping, our very DNA ... ...and when do we choose to release, with gratitude, the layers that no more vibrate

etched on skin, carved in muscle, painted - like a mural - in bone, our bodies are beliefs made physical, lives made readable (to those who will see). Bodily inscriptions of personal truths give rise to imprints of thinking, habits of doing and patterns of being. from the mundane to the ethereal, our moving bodies detail our interior lives and our philosophies about those lives. We are ALL bodies of knowledge. What does your BODY know? --- Body: Lee Campbell Photo Credit: Fra