DANCEMEDITATION

I sat with my friend Annemarie at the cafe opposite BAM last fall after seeing dress rehearsal for Bombay Blues. Pina came in with a group of friends. I thought how elegant she looked in her slumpy dark clothing, gaunt but strong features, her like-ness to Georgia O’Keefe.
I am stunned by her death. Very sudden. No lingering demise. I loved every ballet I ever had the opportunity to see.
I am inspired that she was on stage a week before her death, and that she had a Wim Wenders project in the works for September.
That is how it should be — inside one’s loved work until a cool breath takes you away. I hope for that…

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Walk to the well
Turn as the earth and the moon turn
Circling what they love
Whatever circles comes from the center
–Rumi

Conversation between Dunya & Kate Temple-West:

Kate: I came across this from philosopher Charles Taylor:
“If authenticity is being true to ourselves, is recovering our own ’sentiment de l’existence’, then perhaps we can only achieve it integrally if we recognize that this sentiment connects us to a wider whole.  It was perhaps not an accident that in the Romantic period the self feeling and the feeling of belonging to nature were linked.  Perhaps the loss of a sense of belonging through a a publicly defined order needs to be compensated by a stronger, more inner sense of linkage.  Perhaps this is what a great deal of modern poetry has been trying to articulate; and perhaps we need few things more today than such articulation.”
It is authenticity that connects us, and so therefore it makes sense that we can be our most authentic when we feel most connected… to the Divine/ nature/ each other, etc., as well as the other way around.

Dunya: Yes! Most of modern life is a distraction to feeling self-connected. Such distraction drives appetites and is therefor good for capitalism, but it starves us on spiritual and emotional levels. I believe that all of our innermost hearts want love — both human/natural and Divine. Meditation is THE most revolutionary work to practice in a capitalist society; it calms appetites by filling us with what we really need, really want. Then we buy less, eat less. We consume appropriately.