I’ve been dancing and writing all my life.
\nAt first, to myself, in notebooks:
\nIn moments of inspiration, in the studio, alone when I’m trying to create something new, or in class with my students all around me
\nI write in the morning.
\nI write when I’m distressed, but also when I’m joyful.
\nI write when I’m questioning my life, my choices,
\nWhen the new year starts, on my birthday, my son’s or my partner’s.
\nAnd at any moment I can spare.<\/p>\n
I started writing in the fifth grade, at first to God; later I would address myself to “my dear diary”
\nMuch later I wrote while in meditation retreats, and during other therapeutic processes I went through,
\nI wrote morning pages on the liberation of my creative spirit.
\nI wrote to all my life-partners, in loving moments, in moments of difficulty, and finally, in moments of separation.<\/p>\n
In recent years I’ve been writing to my students, before and after class:
\nWhat was, what came to me, what I want to develop in the class next week.
\nI write when I’m “dissatisfied”, when I’m unease and want things to change.
\nI write my life as it is, what I have and what I intend to have, on different levels.<\/p>\n
I write in notebooks of different sizes, from around the world.
\nFor me, going into a stencil shop, especially in certain places in Europe, and picking out a new notebook, is a unique experience, almost spiritual.<\/p>\n
I’ve been writing, and dancing, all my life.
\nToday I’m begun to write for my new blog, our new blog.<\/p>\n
It’s been two years since I realized I’ve wanted to write a blog, but for all my love of writing, I didn’t know how.
\nAnd yesterday \u2013 that was it! The realization came, and it went straight from my head and onto the page (or rather, computer screen)
\nThe question that was holding me back was \u2013 how to choose?
\nOut of everything in me, everything I do,
\nWhere to start?
\nAnd then I realized, that it’s just like when I teach or perform:
\nI bring myself as I am with everything that’s in me to that moment, to the students or to the audience.
\nThis blog will be in that very spirit of improvisation, which has filled my entire life.
\nBecause improvisation has always supported a feeling I’ve had since I was a child:
\nThat what’s really important is the present moment, and everything that’s in it.
\nAnd so this blog will be talking about contact and improvisation in exactly the same way I’ve lived, danced, and taught, until today. There will be no duality.<\/p>\n
I’ll be talking about myself.
\nAbout my professional and personal life, and the various questions that drive me.
\nOn how for the past 20 years I’ve been teaching people to connect to their body through motion, through improvisation.
\nI’m going to write about exciting moments from studio classes, that echo truths about life.
\nAbout the way people change and let themselves expand their own boundaries, and find the power hidden deep inside their body.
\nI’ll write about challenges, about the questions that arise in me when I’m leading people who are looking for change, for healing.
\nI’ll write about how I try to help others, how I piece together all the knowledge I’ve gathered into a multitude of steps, helping those who wish to walk the way of healing and change, who wish to go beyond the hurdles of criticism, cynicism, body-dissociation, and so many others\u2026
\nI’ll write about poetic moments, when everyday motion becomes a movement touched by grace,
\nWhen the head stops thinking and the body leads the way through our emotions.
\nI’ll write about the changes happening in the expanding field of Improvisation, in the past 20 years and throughout the globe
\nI’ll write about fellow-creators who are honestly searching for a way to bring the body’s natural forces back to life
\nI’ll share books I’ve read, performances, films, plays that I find thought-provoking.
\nI’ll write about my ever-changing life, about being a mother for my son Aviv, a lover to my partner Avishai, about the new family we’re building together, about the challenges.
\nI’ll write about the passion that now drives me towards social involvement, on how to awaken and reinforce real change through connection to the body and through improvisation.
\nI’ll write as I have danced all these years: With a sincere desire for honesty, dialogue, and out of my calling to awaken people.
\nTo awaken us to what’s exciting, to what’s scary and full of joy at the same time.
\nI’ll write about improvisation as a tool to expand the freedom and possibilities in everyone’s life,
\nAnd about the journey you can make through the body and through motion.<\/p>\n
And if these words stirred you up, brought up questions, thoughts, dreams or reveries, you are welcome to share, to write, to suggest\u2026<\/p>\n
So here we go\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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