transmission 1 · page two

on dancing

Why do humans dance?

Or an even more astute question…

Why don’t humans dance?

Many animals have been observed in nature to dance

Including our closest ancestors

field notes

Genetically, we are programmed to move. Scientists believe these physical reactions to sound hint that the basic biological urge to move rhythmically has prehuman origins shared with our common ancestors millions of years ago. ^[1, 2]

[1] the guardian — reporting on rhythm’s prehuman origins [2] peer-reviewed findings on beat induction in primates

Yet we’ve locked away dancing

Behind judgements,

Behind a societal feeling that self expression is weird.

And in only the spaces designed and curated enough by our collective efforts

Do we feel safe enough to dance.

weird people are watching act normal who do you think you are? cringe not here

Dancing must be tied to our egos

And this is a learned thing.

That means, it can be changed

For me, this happened when my ego shattered,

while on the dance floor of possibly the greatest place to experience humanity’s taming and channelling of energy,

I had an unlock that feels supernatural.

I stopped dancing for others

and began dancing for myself.

At that moment, all fear of being perceived or, worse, judged disappeared.

And when my soul was completely silent, the rhythm took over..

When one energy that’s different perceives another, it can be uncomfortable, frightening even, because it’s unfamiliar.

Most of us don’t fully understand our own energy, or “being” in the more classical definition.

So when an undiscovered part is being quantized, it is uncomfortable.

It forces energy to take a state in the beautiful chaos that we normally live in.

<to be continued> return to the river