Two new books show that movement helps us see the rhythms we all share

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> As the American composer John Cage once remarked, formal theater exists to remind us that theater is already happening all around us

True that.

Ignore a virus underlying a pandemic: Stupid, a super duper big deal, and unacceptable!

Ignore the complex, more causally important, and typically unseen (if not worse!) nature of reality that is visible (if one dares to look) all around us: Smart, no problemo, and mandatory!

Letting your body move even just a little to music you are unfamiliar with, or even sceptical of, usually helps enormously. Has helped friends when I brought them to free or experimental jazz performances they would probably have otherwise described as random notes, or worse :)

Will recommend a related mind blowing Huberman Lab episode covering the neuroscience of language, movement, music with Erich Jarvis. Learning that speech is fundamentally a form of incredibly refined muscle movement from the genes and brain perspective was one of those- OMG that is so obvious and so brilliant- moments. Dance IS speech, in other words.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

Archived: https://archive.ph/HR2ZF

biotensegrity is a fascinating subject

_hums the rhythm of wisdom_

Ha, Stormlight Archive was the first thing I thought of, too.

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