Is Contemporary Dance Hard? An Easily Answered Question in Bangalore Indiranagar at FLUX!
Is contemporary dance hard? This is a question that we come across from time to time. We at FLUX school of Arts address this with honesty, courage, and curiosity.
It is all about perspectives. Perspectives are always relative. So how we view something to be hard and something to be easy is all about perspectives.
Is Contemporary Dance Hard: Various Perspectives
What shapes up our perspectives? Our lived experiences! We at FLUX school of Arts encourages healing. And healing is not about making the hard stuff go away. Rather, it’s about sitting with the hard part, moving with it, and bringing ease to deal with the same. It’s about integrating the shadow with the light and the light with the shadow. This is how we grow, shine, and become the healer for our own lives.
Is Contemporary Dance Hard: Breaking Patterns
Contemporary dance is about the same principle. It’s about bringing efficiency and ease to the parts that we struggle with. This means making a choice not to struggle but shift the very narrative by breaking patterns. It’s about learning through the body about what not to do at first and then learn what to do. Like what parts to engage, how to integrate the techniques and make them fun through making them smooth!
Is Contemporary Dance Hard: Expanding Vision
It teaches us to give them full attention and have a spine allowing us to do courageous acts in life. That’s the way we twist, up, down, diagonal, right and left. We dance through these moves and open our bodies to expand. This in turn expands our vision.
Through contemporary dance, we find the light that resides deepest within us. And the movements gives us a hand to smoothly move forward with life. We move with our shadows through the dark, the grays and the light. It amounts to taking a leap in our consciousness awakening our self.
Is Contemporary Dance Hard: Accountability
Through contemporary dance, we learn to accept compassionate accountability of reaching back home, i.e. our bodies. Here we have answers to all our questions. We give creative expressions to our breath, our stories, and the perceptions about our world. It is through our body that we journal, giving life its meaning.
Is Contemporary Dance Hard: Resilience
At FLUX we believe art is to make the disturbed comfortable and the comfortable disturbed. Where we discern, we grow through breaking patterns, bring safety to our perceived threat and show up in the most gentle resilient way possible. The discernment lies where we perceive safety to be threat and threat to be safe because of familiarity.
Is Contemporary Dance Hard: Familiarity
Familiarity comes by doing unfamiliar things for a long period of time repeatedly. Safety happens when we face insecurity with compassionate enquiry. Our discernment gets better with time and trying, failing and trying again. We get success by making room for failure. It’s a circle of life. And contemporary dance teaches us circularity of life through circularity in our moves. That’s what makes it easy. Thus, contemporary dance is the way of life.
Is Contemporary Dance Hard: Breaking Free
Our founder, Sahiba Singh always encourages us to have fun, get out of our heads (the voices of criticism and limited beliefs) and get into the body and treat our bodies with joy and liberation. To break free from the shackle of our mind, and use the body and the mind as a powerful tool to live the dance of life.
Is Contemporary Dance Hard: Vulnerability
We, in X-Sense, our flagship contemporary dance course, learn how to trust ourselves and each other as a byproduct and become courageously vulnerable. We face our fears, do it anyway with our coexisting emotions. These are fear, comparison, grief, disappointment, anxiety, sadness with joy, elation, love, tenderness, security, and safety.
Is Contemporary Dance Hard: Togetherness Brings Ease of Learning
FLUX is a safe and a brave space for a reason. We invite people to dare greatly, providing them the safety not to be judged. It makes them compassionately accountable in their dance journey which extends to their life experiences. We co-regulate each other’s nervous system through empathy, through shared pain, and doing vulnerability together. We do not compete, we collaborate. This is what makes contemporary dance for us very easy and very safe to learn.
We turn resilient enough to admit it can be hard at times, but the approach makes all the difference. Anything that we try for the first time is unfamiliar and thus we feel threatened. The more we show up and the more we practice, it becomes safer, familiar, and thus easy with time.
Is Contemporary Dance Hard: Changing Narrative
Our founder Sahiba Singh believes in “Art is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” And contemporary dance follows the same narrative. It is about growing at your own pace in your own timeline so that there is no rush to reach. It is a balance of rest, pause and activation. It is about being patient with ourselves and taking one learning and unlearning at the same time. So with the right people, in the right environment, our perspectives become our reality and the power is to shift the narratives collaboratively.
Is Contemporary Dance Hard: Turning Hardships into Ease
We can’t not do pain, And, we can heal from pain, if we do it. Contemporary dance is liberating, releasing, transformative and evolving. All of this requires us to face hardships to turn it into ease and efficiency. We do not need to be harsh on ourselves, we need to be compassionate and curious while we dare greatly. If we make room for our difficult emotions and shift our narratives, we thrive at a deeper level.
Is Contemporary Dance Hard: Process Vs Destination
We at FLUX hold safe space for all our emotions, without any judgement and let people experience authenticity and curiosity. We help people in the way they want to be helped. We get curious about what helps them and what takes them to shift narratives at their own pace. We learn what they need to unlearn and relearn. We discover what showing up with love and compassion means to them. We listen and we encourage.
Courage comes with doing courageous things. And courage is not tough love, it is a language of gentle love and gentle bravery. It’s the vulnerability within us which makes us human and makes us courageous. We dare greatly in the process. And the outcome follows. It’s the journey that makes the difference to our destination.
Is Contemporary Dance Hard: No, Just Do It!
And as healing is a continuous never ending non linear journey, so is contemporary dance. At FLUX we envision growth in a unique way, and so we believe in stagnancy there is growth as well. We are growing each day consciously and unconsciously in steps. It happens so though the need is to bridge this gap and let our unconscious have a conscious awakening. So, the question is thrown back at your face.
Is contemporary dance hard, then?
Explore it with curiosity, patience, joy, ease, and love, here at FLUX School of Arts. We are waiting earnestly with ease , arms wide open and brave gentle hearts.
In case you want to know more about contemporary dance being hard or easy, give us a call to us on +919606555607.
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