Do they dance together?
The oil pumps are pecking at the ground like dinosaurs.
THE HIGH ROAD: Texans Have Perfected the Art of the Roadside Rescue by Lauren Hough in Texas Highways magazine
My junior and high school years were spent in Midland, Texas, so I connected with this imagery, and I love how it so concisely creates such an evocative impression.
If I had the knowledge of tango music that Christos Kouroupetroglou (GoodnightTango.com) has, I could give you titles of tango music that might evoke the images I’ll suggest here. Maybe some of you can suggest titles and images.
What if the music were suggesting that we walk like a T-Rex? How would that feel? Or maybe a milonga song, where we move as if we’re roadrunners, with those searching, considering pauses between scurrying motion.
Can we imagine ourselves on a storm-tossed ship in the middle of a dramatic Pugliese sea? A piece of driftwood, floating and lazily turning through a quiet, reflective song. Maybe a warm Spring day where our feet happily chat with each other, strolling and turning along the path, sharing with each other the lovely things that catch our attention.
A thing about this approach is that we can apply it to whatever choreography or moves we already have, and thereby change the character and impact of that movement. Imagery can enrich our dancing by taking us out of our “this is me” mindset into different bodies, settings, and situations.
How to conclude? Oh! How about the ever-popular cat, a creature driven by curiosity? What is this partner like? What might I sense about their inner creatures and how they like to move? How does my instrument of movement fit this music?
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