Do you love the process of choreography too?
Maybe you first hear the music and are moved to create... Maybe you get the concept first and discover the music second. Or you decide to use no music. Or you get a particular movement. Or you first see the colors... Or it starts from a word or phrase. Or you are invited to create for a specific time and place and reason or season and as you are standing there staring out, it comes to you--what you should do.
The thing has been conceived. Maybe it is fresh or maybe it has been burning in there for awhile. Now it needs to be nurtured to full term and delivery--the release of the dance. You may feel you just need a little help to birth it. I love walking alongside people to help them in this process--to be a "midwife," of sorts, when it comes to the ideas for dances that have been conceived by the Holy Spirit within them. I delight in helping to draw out the full expression of their vision as we find ways to work together to realize its creation.
The Holy Spirit is so original and interesting. I love the variety in the ways He works and the multiplicity of people there are. I love collaborating with different configurations of them and have indeed worked with many, particulary in dyads. Each experience of this "relational choreography" leaves me changed. Dances can exist for all sorts of purposes and accomplish all sorts of things, just like a poem or song or sermon can. What He will do through a given one is up to God. Surrendering to His process of working in and through me with others in this way is such a pleasure and a gift because I see how attentive the Lord is to details and how caring to each individual.
One favorite of mine is to make a dance that speaks eternally for but a moment in time and space. Everything about it is uniquely tailored to the particular context, not to be reproduced elsewhere. Once it is done, it is over, but it lasts forever in eternity. I think that is possible because the Word of God is eternal and I think He can speak through a dance.
Choreographing is multidimensional. We work with spirit, the space, energy and time, music, maybe words, and with skill, steps, and the vision for the dance's existence. The hearts and minds of the dancers must be as entwined in the dance as their bodies while the Holy Spirit orchestrates in and through all for His glorious purposes. What a thrill!
The thing has been conceived. Maybe it is fresh or maybe it has been burning in there for awhile. Now it needs to be nurtured to full term and delivery--the release of the dance. You may feel you just need a little help to birth it. I love walking alongside people to help them in this process--to be a "midwife," of sorts, when it comes to the ideas for dances that have been conceived by the Holy Spirit within them. I delight in helping to draw out the full expression of their vision as we find ways to work together to realize its creation.
The Holy Spirit is so original and interesting. I love the variety in the ways He works and the multiplicity of people there are. I love collaborating with different configurations of them and have indeed worked with many, particulary in dyads. Each experience of this "relational choreography" leaves me changed. Dances can exist for all sorts of purposes and accomplish all sorts of things, just like a poem or song or sermon can. What He will do through a given one is up to God. Surrendering to His process of working in and through me with others in this way is such a pleasure and a gift because I see how attentive the Lord is to details and how caring to each individual.
One favorite of mine is to make a dance that speaks eternally for but a moment in time and space. Everything about it is uniquely tailored to the particular context, not to be reproduced elsewhere. Once it is done, it is over, but it lasts forever in eternity. I think that is possible because the Word of God is eternal and I think He can speak through a dance.
Choreographing is multidimensional. We work with spirit, the space, energy and time, music, maybe words, and with skill, steps, and the vision for the dance's existence. The hearts and minds of the dancers must be as entwined in the dance as their bodies while the Holy Spirit orchestrates in and through all for His glorious purposes. What a thrill!
