Category: NIA dance practice

  • I don’t know why my brain trips me up with inertia. I want to do a thing; I know it’s a good useful thing to do. But I don’t wanna. Not right now. Didn’t want to go dance this morning. Don’t know why. Went anyway. And it was great, of course. Exactly what I needed.…

  • 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…

  • 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…