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...on stillness

 

 

"...what I find myself excited by is stillness as a focus in the body.
When you think about stillness of course, you realise that the body is never still.
Stillness is a quality of the mind and body that ideally you always carry with you - and if you can tap into that stillness it seems to stimulate movement from a particular source.

I heard John Berger recently talking about writing being like smashing the silence around the word. It's the same in dance. There's a stillness around movement waiting to be broken
...and when you go through that stillness to find the movement,
there's another stillness at the centre of that...and so it goes on."

 

from an interview in The Independent, London GB 1992 

 

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