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“As I tackled the uncomfortable challenge of thinking without words, of allowing muscle memory to take the place of prose, I found myself growing as a writer. Because dance, it turns out, like many of the arts, has far more in common with writing than meets the eye.
As with writing, the final product of years of hard work dancing appears neat and simple at first blush. It tells a story with beauty, grace and impact. Its many parts seem like a single entity with a life of its own.
Yet its inner workings are infinitely complex. To master them, dancers have to pull together a multitude of disparate and often contradicting pieces. They have to bend into positions they never imagined possible and stretch themselves. Far. They must listen, observe, synchronize, respect conventions and self-critique, their mind’s eye constantly scanning their work, taking stock of how it looks from the outside and how it’s functioning within.”
- Sharon Bially | WriterUnboxed.com | 5/31/12
Read the full article here for parallels such as:
- Learn to stretch
- Observe closely, and from a distance
- Work regularly, with discipline
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