Having just finished Gabrielle Roth's, Sweat Your Prayers book and enjoying her 5 rhythms ecstatic dance, I decided to depict the rhythms in the form of iPad Art Studio pieces, named for the rhythms.
Here is a quote from the section on "Waves", the movement through all of the rhythms:
"I love waves; I wish I had some in my hair. My daddy did, but I guess I didn't dive into that end of the gene pool. Virginia Woolf wrote my favorite book, The Waves, and I have a son who surfs them. I danced a thousand dances to Patti Smith's song "Wave" and I've waved a thousand good-byes. I've seen waves come and take my house, flood the same bedroom where they accompanied countless nights of lovemaking. I have ridden the waves of labor,of sorrow, and of bliss." ....
"As a practice I know that however hard something is I can let it go in my dance and my dance will support me.. It keeps me loose and flexible. It liberates me from any fixed notions of how I think things should be. It keeps me fascinated, on my toes, open to change, alert, and intuitive."
It sounds and feels good to me.
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| Flowing |
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| Staccato |
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| Chaos |
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| Lyrical |
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| Stillness |
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Ecstatic Dance