I inhabit performance as a heightened state of awareness,
as a lens on experience.
Performance is my way to touch a mythology that is
held in the deep body. Manifesting gestures that are
parts of patterns that are parts of rhythms that the
body has sung and danced for cycles of time. The stories
that bodies have lived again and again, as we reach
towards evolution.
Performance is my way of communicating with the magnificent
forces that move in and through life, and with the forces
that move in and through the world of dream.
I am pulled to locate my body through
a dialogue with time and place. The body is sculpted
by time, altered by experience of place. I want to know
my body/Self as it is changing, and as it is becoming.
I want my consciousness to shape my evolution.
I want to dance the beautiful and devastating
pull between animal and spirit. I want to dance the
beautiful and impossible love between male and female.
I want to stretch between life and death.
I want to be present and awake, as much as possible.
I want to hold, I want to set free.
My body dancing for all bodies, sometimes…
Misha
London, 2009
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