Dancing Body: Philosophy and ApproachSWAN: a poetical inquiry in dance, text, & memoir (Hieros Gamos, ‘divine union’)
La practica e filosophia di L. Martina Young Dance Artist / Movement Investigator I. Dancing as a way of being (ontology/ontologia) ~ Every part of a body is an intelligent organ, — perceptive, poetic in its relational acumen, thinks by feeling, and feels by heart. Night and day, life is noted, breathed in, breathed out, — notitia imprinted and exuded through skin and membrane. Wholly articulate in its sensual brilliance, in its wounded grace, bodies translate corporeal compassion. Always empathic, always intact, a body moves toward balance even in brokenness. Dancing thus raises being to another level. II. Dancing as a way of knowing/not (epistemology/epistemologia) ~ Throughout the lifespan, our bodies offer a portal, a return to the content of ourselves, — primordial content that links, negotiates, and integrates the actualities and necessities of our being human. Dancing along the divide between life and death, every move embodies such content. III. Dancing as somaesthetic & poetic practice (somàtica estetica e poetica) ~ As a generative and generous act, a dancing body is both the pause and the punctuation that engenders meaning in experiences, — every moment a detail of life being lived, considered -- through felt image, specific and non-specific memory, rhythm, and through the spontaneous relationships made with one’s body/soul, with and without the world. |
"The reality of the body is not given, but to be made real, to be realized; the body is to be built; to be built not with the hands but with the spirit. It is the poetic body; the made body; [Man] makes himself, his own body
in the symbolic freedom of the imagination.” ~ Norman O. Brown 
Photograph by Anne Murray,
Arte Studio Ginestrelle, Italy 2014
“The green and vermillion glow catches fire, shoots rays, pulsates, subsides,
rises again, exploding, all in utter silence” ~ excerpt, “Passages” Giovanni Pascoli “[Like] a ray of light, gesture reflects all that passes in the soul. [For memory], let it be divined, revealed by gesture.” ~ François Delsarte |
Current Lectures/Humanities for All©2022
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Artist-Scholar L. Martina Young, Ph.D., brings mythopoetic insights gleaned from lived experiences to renew meaning to our sense of humanitas: Love, Health & Healing, Solitude, Somatic Knowing, On Practice, Religion & Spirituality.
Booking Now: [email protected]
Artist-Scholar L. Martina Young, Ph.D., brings mythopoetic insights gleaned from lived experiences to renew meaning to our sense of humanitas: Love, Health & Healing, Solitude, Somatic Knowing, On Practice, Religion & Spirituality.
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