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Dance a Fractal

A fractal is a pathway, a shape the reveals an experience of nature’s beauty as both simple and complex, as direct and intricate.

As a dancer, movement can follow a line or a curve. Since dance is a unique study of the curve, how do we express a fractal. A simple curve gives way to a loop within the curve. Repeating this refreshed pattern gives way to another loop within the loop. The variation continues until a simple curve refreshes itself with all the experience of the previous fractal.

The improvisational dancer is familiar with following one movement that builds upon another. The surrender to the fractal image is allowing loops to recur and vary with every curved movement of any part of the body. The variations then can involve every direction and every level of intensity or color to name only a few possibilities.

Loops upon loops, circles upon spirals, all reveal pathways and different levels of experience.

With the dancer, every part of the body can create a fractal dance, each unique with contrapuntal melodies and interplaying rhythms.
Tim Hurst 08/21/17