Awareness

The limbs must, in a sense, extend out to the ends of the studio, and even further perhaps. The connection with the outside world and others must be made in order to pull off presence and uniformity. It's oftentimes difficult getting outside of ones own self when executing a movement. As I might have mentioned before, there may be moments of fluid actionless seeming action (wu-wei). It is likely at that realm that one can begin to extend his spacial and environmental awareness.

Personally, with the awareness exercises, it comes very natural if I am not given any time to think. It's as if mind tries to trick the body that it is only by it that anything can be accomplished. This is that constant struggle between mind and body as two separate entities. Merged into one, they will likely accomplish the most of what one desires. In a dance performance, after one gets out of being too inward, and spreads the awareness to encompass the whole stage and even the audience, everybody would be very together as if all being connected by invisible bands.

The blog post that precedes this really ties in if one is relating awareness to consciousness. In this case, to Ken Wilber, speaking in terms of having body awareness, we are working on the ego level, which contains both ego and body, but split up into a duality. In terms of resolving that spacial awareness outside of ones personal ego/body, we are working on the existential level, which has upon it a splitting of organism and environment. Dance appears to put a lot of emphasis on both of those levels.