movement: contemplations on dance(rs)

*(an ode of sorts for friends who are movement artists)
----

they
move in between the sounds
hitting the beat unheard

landing like feathers
gliding across the stages of this world
paris
london
moscow
st petersburg
new york
chicago
seoul
and all the other
planks
in between (minneapolis)

hand wrist flip
hand wrist inward stock motion
animation

toes
ankles
bent just so
pointing us to
look anew

degas understood

they do the things that
poets
painters
cannot

they move the mysterious
from
invisible
to
visible

they make real
what is only felt inside
they make what is inside
real.

they make sharp
what is so often blurred to sight

they are the gods of details
making us all mortal
they are the ghosts we carry in our heart's hidden pockets

they are mortals who transcend all the
spaces
for a moment

blackholes projecting new dimensions
taking all this seeming empty void
and giving shape
to
moments that
escape
all words
written
spoken
put onto paper/cloth
canvas

... oh so
lithe
are
they.


kim thompson. wednesday 16 nov. 2011 @12.54 seoul. s. korea.