What Is Dance?
What is dance? It is movement - the rhythm of the universe,
the pulse beat of the earth, the choreography of the galaxies.
The swaying of the trees, the way a reed
bends in the evening's breeze.
A leaf that priouettes it's way down to the creek
to cascade over the rocks and stones and
improvise as it goes forth to find another home.
What is dance? Dance is the pose of a tree,
dance is breath, to live and to be.
Dance is - the never ending bending
that turns and swirls in grace.
A child at play, a bottle bobbing on the oceans wave.
Ahhh, again I say, Dance is life, living breathing being.
Dance is you. Dance is me.
Dance is art, a sculpture is but a moment of movement
frozen in time. A line encased in space.
A painting, but the brushing out of movement
from within captured on a canvas, a mural, a slab,
whatever, but it is there.
It is all there, something that grew from the heart
and manifested itself without, to stir others within.
To dance, to move with the music of the spheres.
The silent sounds that only our hearts can hear.
Ahhhh how blessed just to be, to be -
To dance and give myself to Thee.
To be an instrument.
As the flautist breathes life into his flute, so too, the breath
of life flows through the vessel, the body of the dancer,
to breathe out and to breathe in, to undulate in space
with His eternal grace.
Dance is the image and energy of God. His divine creation,
His ultimate work of art. And, again I say, you are dance.
You are life. You are you, I am me.
I thank God for letting this be.
From my heart to yours,
Jade Geneve Kepner