the cultivation of awareness

We make different choices when we are choosing from the neck up than when we are choosing from the bottom of our feet up. For dancers (i'm increasingly dismayed by that word) it means cultivating a deep awarenss of states of the body, the ability to sense and track sensation, and the ability to recontextualize choice in those ever shifting contexts. This enhances a dancer's ability to make choices that support both the dance and the dancer. Perhaps more importantly, the cultivation of deep awareness has application accross a multitude of contexts and can ehance how we navigate the wrold and the choices available to us as we do that.