“Each stretch of the body leads into a movement. Each movement leads into another. The arms, the torso, the feet, the head are in constant conversation. There is not one motion that is isolated.
A tai chi master once said our bodies are little universes within the big universe. Imagine you are the sun, Saturn, Jupiter, air, cloud, dust; rotating, circulating, fluttering in relation to the big universe. Push is pull as the chi moves. Your maneuver from one position to another is a dialogue in space. Some people think exercises are mechanical and we do them because we have to strengthen our body. They don’t know exercises slowly stretch into dance.”
Kaiwen You, China Dance School.
Movement of any sort “slowly stretches into dance.” Charles Olson wrote that to write poetry was “to dance sitting down.”