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| Belfagen Dancers (photo courtesy of Liz Fenwick/dancers courtesy of Anna Louise Lucia) |
I’m still in recovery from last
weekend’s RNA Conference in Penrith. A weekend which has become my writing New
Year’s Eve, a time and place for me to assess the last year and plan for the
new. A place to learn as well as a place to talk too much, drink copious
amounts and generally get up to mischief.
This year it hit me like a proper new
year. With all the angst and fear and heartache that I suffer every 31st
December. This last year has been full of ups and downs and beyond busy in a
personal sense. I also realized (after being grumpy and various Heroine Addicts
giving me great advice) that I haven’t been writing enough. Three hours of
solid writing later and my mood was on the way back.
But what really got me in the new year
spirit was something not directly connected with writing. The lovely Anna
Louise Lucia is a morris dancer and asked her dance side to come and
demonstrate to us on Sunday afternoon. They also taught us two dances. It was
AMAZING! Everyone was grinning from ear to ear after we’d finished. All the
cobwebs and problems were swept away as we tapped and twirled, dipped and
swung.
“Let us read, and let us dance; these
two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” Voltaire
“We should consider every day lost on
which we have not danced at least once.” Friedrich Nietzsche
“To dance is to be out of yourself.
Larger, more beautiful, more powerful.. This is power, it is glory on earth and
it is yours for the taking” Agnes De Mille
“It's the heart afraid of breaking that
never learns to dance.” Xiaolu Guo
“Life is sweet when you pay attention.
When it doesn't seem sweet, put a sticker on your nose and do a funky dance.” Whitney
Scott
Come back on Sunday to hear from Susanna (who we missed at the RNA)
