Far Reach

If it can be remembered, the concept of far reach past ones own immediate self seems to be very helpful. The concept is to "send the energy outward" as if you are extending well beyond your own limbs. The visualization assures the dancer that energy to the body will circulate. Personally, when I visualize reaching far, I think of shooting lines that go out for blocks. The trick is to remember to do even do this.

Being able to do this will have an individual appear to have better lines, and I would imagine that it would make it easier to complete movements. Reaching beyond oneself in dance is a matter of quality. The act requires steady breath and confidence. Extending to the furthest point without appearing strained in doing so is a refined art; pulling it off may be as being able to accurately hit a target effortlessly.


The problem is that we extend to what appears to be just the end of our limbs, but in so doing this, it appears that the energy ceases. I would imagine that similair types of visualization would give the same result like visualizing oneself dancing but with a larger dance body. I suppose one could also go into a third person mode, and visualize themselves from the vantage point of somebody else whom is seeking nothing but far reach beyond oneself.

The type of growing-beyond-oneself visualization is actually commonly used for self-empowerment, and is even taken to the extreme in working with western magick. In particular, the beginning of the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram has one grow beyond themselves so large that they eventually become as big as the entire universe.