{"id":209,"date":"2014-03-12T12:46:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T12:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/?p=209"},"modified":"2014-03-12T12:54:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T12:54:06","slug":"brief-notes-on-watching-myself-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/brief-notes-on-watching-myself-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief notes: On watching myself dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eveshutterFH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-212\" alt=\"eveshutterFH\" src=\"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eveshutterFH-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eveshutterFH-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eveshutterFH-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eveshutterFH.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Knees are bendy. That bothers me for some reason. I don&#8217;t know why I think they shouldn&#8217;t be. Except. Oh, now I recall these movements of perfection performed by exceptional ballerinas and it seems that all movement is away from bendy. Movement as a goal is straight lines. Lithe, effortless, stretching out of limbs and ligaments&#8211;point THAT WAY. My dancing, my movement, is not that. Knees are bendy. They make boxes and check marks and less-than and greater-than signs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How do I make that space in my low back more aware, active, engaged? The space where the glutes meet the sacrum meet the lumbar vertebrae. Is that even possible? How can I dance to make that space alive?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On video I can look large, long, extracted? Up on tiptoes, arms up&#8211;that has power. My tendency is toward the crunched up. The bent knees and arms and a confusion of limbs, but then sometimes I extend it all out and it looks so powerful.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The hands and the feet and the face&#8211;flesh that is visible, not hidden by clothing when they connect something happens. Mirror neurons firing away at the idea of touch&#8211;skin touching skin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Knees are bendy. That bothers me for some reason. I don&#8217;t know why I think they shouldn&#8217;t be. Except. Oh, now I recall these movements of perfection performed by exceptional ballerinas and it seems that all movement is away<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/brief-notes-on-watching-myself-dance\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brief-notes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}