Category: NIA dance practice
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The richness of dance emerges over time, when I’m experienced enough to know the steps and then encounter them in new choreography to unfamiliar music. My brain gets to enjoy moving in already embedded ways while being delighted with new combinations and unexpected rhythms. Add on top of that getting to dance with the choreographers…
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Two weeks of taking it easy because of an injury left me hungry for full-on dance. While the brief healing routines I did felt right, my brain also craved the endorphins from fully aerobic dancing. Yesterday, I got back to it, keeping my movements small while dancing Synchronicity with Debbie Lee van Ginkel and then…
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Pain that hits out of the blue is the damn weirdest thing. I don’t know quite what I did that led to such deep pain in my left glute that I couldn’t bend at all from the waist without triggering it. Before that, I had been feeling pretty self-satisfied, what with daily walks and three…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 