Sunday, August 16, 2015

Why you should go see dance.

I hypothesize that one of the reasons why younger adults (ages 20-35) do not go out to see dance performance is because even if you can get alcohol you usually cannot bring it to your seats.  I also believe that while in the process of becoming, being, and purposefully trying to act like an adult and what that should be, we try to avoid magic.  We desperately avoid magic, or life and the other adults in it force its painful removal.  But dance is magic.  Not only do we need dance in our lives, we also need to allow magic to happen too.  We are unknowingly desperate for it, seeking it out with (for example) deceptive little trips that we call vacations, trying to escape something when in actuality we need to run away from the grip of false callousness and simply allow suppressed necessities like creativity, naivite, charm, and of course magic to flow and run out of us as they are wont to do.  It doesn't make you a child though, unfortunately, we have deemed them child-like, and nobody wants to go there.  But I think we should go there.  We really should go to the dance.