By Erick Hawkins
Essays exploring dance as a way to deeper enlightenment.
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The difference between men and animals is a big philosophical subject. But I d o know we have a common structure, a common necessity to move as the animals do. T h e only statement about our existence that cannot be contradicted by anyone is that o u r existence depends o n our moving our muscles. That is o u r existence. That, we have in common with all the animals. The beautiful animals. It is true I choose among the animals as to their movement. I d o choose. I choose the tiger and the leopard, the snake, the fish, the peacock, the prancing horse.
Its premise is a theoretical one. The movement is felt as a static geometrical relationship of vertical trunk with arms and legs moving like semaphores. N o w this doesn't always happen. The unconscious human feeling and sense spills out. But the avowed technique aims at a machine-like sense of symmetry. I believe my real intuition was confirmed when by accident a few years ago, I saw both the Eastern and Western treatment of a swan in dance. Swanness. An attempt, that is, to find in movement on the stage the poetry of the swan.
Afterwards, he spoke in his good, but hesitant, English about how he felt about watching the swan, even how the swan ate. This short piece was a masterpiece of poetic insight. Sensitive, observant, subtle, egoless, at one with the wondrousness of the living swan, the living world. About the same time, I saw a much-praised performance of the ballet "Swan Lake" at the Metropolitan Opera House. Of course, I had seen it often before, but coming just after Priyagopa17s performance, I was shocked to see the absence of inner awareness, the dull coenesthesia of the movement of the "swan" in the ballet.