Posted in dance, favorite things on September 29, 2006 | No Comments »
“Will you walk a little faster?”
said a whiting to a snail,
“There’s a porpoise close behind us,
and he’s treading on my tail.
See how eagerly the lobsters
and the turtles all advance!
They are waiting on the shingle –
will you come and join the dance?
…
“You can really have no notion
how delightful it will be
When they take us up and [...]
Posted in dance, favorite things on September 22, 2006 | No Comments »
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be [...]
Posted in dance, favorite things on September 21, 2006 | No Comments »
“O Chestnut tree, great rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance.”
William Butler Yeats (Among School Children)
