I miss the sense of connection of being with people in a space. I appreciate not having to spend time going places, but there was a ritual in going to a place to be with people that helped me collect my focus and intention to be in whatever was going to happen. At home, I can focus for an hour. In the studio I could focus for hours. Online there is so much talking. I miss how much could be said without language. I don't care about the new online skills because I don't want to be on the computer anymore, it's an emotional break-up. I still haven't improved my website. I have rested. I can honestly say I have rested to the point wherein I cannot go back to doing too much. Perhaps in this it has helped me become a better decision maker.

Imagining this might be this as an economically propogated/culturally specific issue?

I want to dance 'with' you not 'at' you. I want to hear your heart beat pulsing beside mine. I want to catch a glimpse of whimsy, excitement, uncertainty in your eyes. I want to 'read' your movements.

Our human connection is at stake! A connection that reminds us we are flesh and blood; interconnected beings, that communicate with each other on multiple levels via the "live" body and its somatic intelligence.

What I mean is the digital space and Artificial Intelligence is permeating almost every aspect of life. As a result we are slowly losing emotional intelligence - feelings we experience in the body within a shared physical environment. So our inner "GPS" that guides us - helps us sense each other within space, is slowly being compromised; perhaps to the point where the actual physical body becomes redundant - or becomes a mechanical instrument rather than a feeling body. I think this will have a direct impact on the dancing body itself... When we can no longer 'read' each other's body language (ie: bodily cues) by being in the same physical space and interacting with each other physically/emotionally/energetically, how we connect/dance/ will inevitably change. I don't know how it will change, but it will. I think the shift to virtual life/living/dancing is a prepping us for what's coming down the pipe. Which may redefine what dance "is."

I think we are slowly losing the body as we once knew it to be.

Gain: Time, Sense of relief, Care for myself and others

Need: Allow yourself and others that this is a transition of going back and don't stress the process of gaining the physical ability and performativity.

Gain: Time, Sense of relief, Care for myself and others

Need: Allow yourself and others that this is a transition of going back and don't stress the process of gaining the physical ability and performativity.

Gain...Legitimizing those who have been for a long time creating/performing in previously non-conventionalized places. Digital spaces have been used for decades, only under-recognized. Digital is now a place to work. Home is now a place to work. Outside of four (4) walls is a place to work. (from Conversations 2021)