I just lo...

I just love modern dance.I miss being near the university where I could go and see the dance students perform all of the time.Students are the best because they are not molded into one particular style yet.Most are wide open for their own expression/interpretation of emotion until too many outside forces and influences posess them and start to make them into robots. The purity of the novice is a hard thing to match. The enthusiasm that accompanies this mindset I think is usually lost until an art is so finely honed that it again becomes pure energy and inspiration.When the technicality of anything creative(art, dance, music)is mastered--then it can be placed in the background and expression comes to the forefront.It looks like the creation came with such ease.But behind this facade is so much work and even banality at times.Modern dance appears to be very free and whimsical--but in all truth, it has a very strong, highly-trained ballet core.Loads of discipline and effort go into the technical aspect of the movement. I always have to work for mine.Very rarely does it flow effortlessly from me.In writing--it's a bit easier, but with music I really have to coax it out of myself.It is a matter of courage sometimes.To be willing to sound shitty for the sake of possibly finding your voice through it.It is a sacrifice of perfectionistic thinking--which I am definitely prone to.To shed this static egotism--to allow yourself(or the idea of a perfect you) to die in a sense in order for something new and better to be born.Isn't that what having an open mind is all about too?? It is the willingness to let something or someone change your mind--allowing yourself to be altered and possibly surpass yourself.Part of this train of thought is coming from some Nietzsche that I read recently.The idea of the ubermensch(overman)--the man who wants to overcome himself for something better.To make mankind better.This is not self--destruction--but rather, a joyful affirmation that growth is life's ultimate purpose--not freezing your soul and saving it for later(unaltered). In any case--it's awesome that we have the arts to turn to.Otherwise--HOW COULD OUR SOULS BREATHE--with as much eating , sleeping, driving, shitting, fucking, fighting, following,working, and talking as we partake in..(interesting combo I chose..I know).There is enough surviving going on in this life...now we need to learn to live with purpose and drive.To see something in a different light.Once again--to be surprised.To not know everything.To be humble.