Stillness

Does Time stop sometimes?
Well, from a physical point of few, there is no reliable situation in which time stays still. But time is not just something we perceive from the external side, like the hour on our clock, or telephone, or the announced time from the church bells. It is also something we carry within our body, we can feel.

Dance is the body in motion, expressive just by its muscular energy, its attitude to time and weight, the body- space relation.



To recognize Movement in space there must be Stillness, rest, a moment where the “visible noise”, the spatial journey pauses. Timeless, as if breathing stops.  
A moment, where nothing comes or goes, that brings us in the NOW
 
Like the law of polarities states, that everything in the universe is balanced by its opposite and that every effect has its cause.

As Laban declares:
” All Stillness is gathered Movement and all Movement gathered Stillness”

Stillness seems born out of assembled events, stored, digested actions, which are transformed into pure, neutral energy, a potential to be used for the following action.


At a first glance, Stillness shows a body pausing, an externally apparent motionless moment, but inwardly this body is proceeding, ready for the next step.       

Stillness is laud.

Movement and Stillness seem explicitly opposites, two parts that don’t belong together but implicitly they are two sides of the same thing. Like in breathing, we inhale what causes exhaling and vice versa.
Stillness is comparable with a moment of silence in music, or during a discourse.
It is a conscious pausing during movement, serves to structure a sequence, to highlight what seems important, transferring Tension and Emotion