Re-learning language

Sydney is sick!  So I’ve quickly cobbled together an exercise of sorts.

I think we should stretch and move as we feel, um, moved while listening to  Wille Colon/Hector Lavoe, “Todo Tiene Su Final“. Then recite together the following passages from lost in language and sound:

Without examining our relationship to the English language, we cannot honestly “hear” the other speak, we cannot become intimate with what we do not respect. What we deem as “foreign” we cannot take to our hearts” 130

As beginning dancers we have no ego problems learning merely to walk again hopefully we will humble ourselves to learn to simply talk again. 135

Freedom is not a commodity, nor am i, nor any of my people.  26

Speaking of Combat Breath, if you have time, take a look at Alexis Gumbs’ “That Transformative Dark Space,” an inquiry into breath, freedom and occupation that responds to Shange in the context of concerns about police occupation. Hopefully in the future we can use some of Alexis Gumbs “Black Feminist Breathing” meditations.