Rebecca Salvadori – Inside Fold (2019)
Clubs are more than just places where people come to dance. Clubs are spaces where the purest forms of human expression come out and play the main role. Where human interactions happen on a different level than in everyday life. Where everyone can be what they are deeply striving to be, where release and catharsis often happens. People are not scared of each other anymore, and the embodiment of a simple rhythm let everyone exist together but also as a separate, liberated beings in the same moment. Everyday life is often intense and stressful and we very often get out of our bodies and function automatically, not focusing on the way they feel and react to what’s happening. We shut down and try to obstruct any (physical and emotional) pain from passing through, trying to redirect our concentration to something else.
Tara Brach – an American psychologist and meditation teacher is talking a lot about how important the connection mind-and-body is in context of neuroscience and mindfulness. ” Awareness of sensations is considered the first foundation of mindfulness because whatever we experience – feelings, emotions, thoughts and sensory perceptions – also arise as sensations in our body. When mindful of our body, we open to the changing stream of sensations without grasping or resistance. The experience might be fear or joy, it might be the intensity of aliveness, or it might be numbness.” (T.Brach)
When ecstasy became a drug of choice in dance clubs, the social dynamics on the dance floor has changed. Many (straight) man, who were previously embarrassed or too drunk to dance, appeared on the dance floor. The drug managed to break the mental blockade of fear of embarrassment and being judged, that was preventing people from freeing their bodies in dance.
“The body of capital is a rigid body, the mechanised body of work: upright and ordered. For some it is a sedentary body, which has its buttocks firmly rooted to a chair. For others it is a repetitive body carrying out the same tasks over and over again or it can be the strong but tired body of physical labour. Each body is ordered by the requirements of its works, by the expectations of bosses, by the rules of the corporation, by the habit of the job. People’s bodies are controlled in time and in space, too still or slouched and they’re lazy, too manic and they’re disruptive.(…)The space itself can grant you the freedom to become bigger, more expressive, more outrageous and the more people participate and reveal this [sensual] freedom through their participation the easier it becomes for others to follow the suit”. )…) Grey flees the building to be replaced by vivid reds, burning oranges, iridescent blues and and slither of topaz. You ain’t in Kansas no more. You’re on the dance floor and it is fearsome fine. (Jackson, 2004, p. 21)
UPLIFTED BODY AND RELAXED MIND (dance)
COLLECTIVE HEALING
DANCE MEDITATION
GOING BAKC TO THE GARDEN
COLLECTIVE HEALING
ENTRAINMENT
OBSERVING SENSATIONS WITHIN SENSATIONS
EXPERIENCING BODY INSIDE OUT
