“Time is a matter of how long the duration between two events takes to achieve itself.” (The Nikolais/Louis Dance Technique* p.176)
In “real time,” we have just had St. Patrick’s Day, are looking ahead at the end of March. Daylight savings has already sprung forward in North America, and shortly will here in Germany as well. Quarantining during a global pandemic has also done weird things to our sense of time. How can we alter our perception of time in dance and life?
Recently in the “Roses Have Thorns” Sleeping Beauty/Hamilton/Shakespeare blog and Podcast 39, I talked about the poignant finitude of time in life given our human mortality. Today I discuss Time’s potential expansiveness, abundance, and richness, from the perspectives of yogic philosophy, as a coaching concept and as an element of dance. Next time we’ll get into more detail about musical ideas about time.
Resources Mentioned:
The Nikolais/Louis Dance Technique*
The Living Gita*
Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others*
Coach Anyone About Anything*
Coach Yourself to Success*
A Primer for Movement Description*
What is the conversation that you have with time?
Stay tuned on my YouTube Channel and Blog for more about the element of time, or book a free sample coaching session with me to try out these tools at ablythecoach.com