DANCE WITH THIS BOOK: Start a Revolution with Your Body, Alone in Your Room.
When you let yourself be moved by music, you lay down tracks in your nervous system, pathways for joy to traverse when you hear that song again. I know that when I choose to dance today, I am building muscle memories of joy, giving my future self more songs to be moved by.
Kelly McGonigal • The Joy of Movement: How exercise helps us find happiness, hope, connection, and courage
Simply by letting my body move me instead of trying to control it, fascinating movement and useful insights would emerge. I felt the expansiveness of my own vocabulary as a dancer, rather than wondering if I could come up with one more evocative or unusual movement in the studio.
Andrea Olsen • The Place of Dance: A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making
let’s dance in earnest the moments of the here and now, and live in earnest. Do not look at the past, and do not look at the future. One lives each complete moment like a dance. There is no need to compete with anyone, and one has no use for destinations. As long as you are dancing, you will get somewhere.