Dance
Dance is my life it means music, movement, just feeling it, feeling the movement feeling the beats from the music on the floor and moving through your body making you move, the floor and empty space is your best friend and you just feel.
Emotion:
E - Energy, energy makes you seen, watched, stand out.
M - Mind, the power of your mind whilst you dance making that unseen telepathic connection with the audience.
O - Optimism, optimism in a performance gets you to the end and beyond if your not happy or optimistic your audience won't be either.
T - Time, the time you have on stage could be short or long but you have to make the most of it you have to be exciting and enjoyable to watch.
I - Imagination, Imagine the what your dancing about if you see it we see it.
O - Open, become open let in your audience you couldn't read a closed book so why try and watch a closed dancer?.
N - Neglect, don't neglect your movements see them right through to the end make every extension count and every movement finish perfectly ... DON'T RUSH.
Emotion is passion and feeling if you can feel it so can we as an audience we are drawn to you we see into your mind and the picture it's creating we see not a stage or a set we see something real the stage fills with the prison cell your trapped in and we see the anger and frustration you have we see the antagonising smiles of the guards just out side, or we are surrounded in the world you have created the green fields your dancing on with the fairies is all around us we can feel the wind and the soft grass with the burning sun on our heads, but the moment you stop to worry or panic so do we, we suddenly get brought back to the bare stage and the dancer on it whose face is filled with panic and despair because they've forgotten what comes next or their mind has been distracted.
Dance to me is a raw art for expression and one of the most powerful you can make people laugh, cry or happy without saying a single word just moving on the stage a dancer like that has EMOTION every single letter and more they work hard and get nothing for a long time they know life they know the harsh effects of relationships, drugs, alcohol, mental illnesses and they know that with every movement they do it has a meaning a powerful work like Love or Hate one single arm gesture done with the right dynamic and feeling can be the same as "I love you" or "I hate you".
When I dance I feel so that by the end of a piece I am tired and drained not just my physical body but my mind and my soul it's all tired my entire working factory is on shut down or strike because I work so hard on stage, Ive not been the most pleasurable person to work with in a studio, not at collage so far anyway, but that partly because of my life interfering like when you outside eating and that annoying fly won't go away well thats it, I am working on it and trying to keep my life at bay because I don't want to let my life ruin the thing that I love and the thing that transports me from time to time and era to era, you know sometimes I feel that I am lucky enough to be the real Doctor Who the amount of eras I have been to and distant places I've been it's amazing it really makes me happy. I just need to make sure I don't ruin possibly the best carrier of my life by being unpleasant to work with because of me bringing my life into the studio all the time, sometimes it is good to bring your life in if the piece your working on needs some anger find that part of your life and bring it in on a leash and use it to your advantage life experience is the best thing for a dancer it can make you, you know give you that edge on the 'well brought up nothing happens goody too shoes' in life that you will most defiantly meet.
I am Courtney Thompson and I Dance2Dance.
