Across cultures it acquires various meanings and forms of expressions.
Raised in Brazil, I grew up experiencing touch and physical closeness as a way of expressing warmth, affection and comfort. When I was 17, I started partner dancing and it was all still there: the closeness, the touch, and the attention to the details of both. It all made sense to me, as to my eyes it was the artistic expression of the ways of connecting I have been experiencing my whole life. I knew no other.
So maybe one can imagine my initial struggles when I got introduced to new cultural lenses that saw touch and closeness differently. When I moved to the US in 2017 I witnessed for the first time how a different culture saw touch and closeness.
My curiosity led me to investigate further. It was then that I started to learn about how vast it is the human experience of the act of, for example, surrounding another with their arms.
These past 4 months I have been in the experience of a lifetime together with minha velha @brendacarvalhodancer . It has been the most amazing thing to teach a Brazilian dance and cultural expression to people of different cultures while having the time to observe, listen and learn about how they live their lives and experience the world.
During this period, whatever judgement I still held faded away and all I can see is the beauty on the diversity and richness of the human experience through the different ways different cultures express, see, and go about touch.
I also concluded that talking about touch is a big deal in the best possible sense! That it’s in a way a revolutionary act in a world where loneliness grows exponentially. That it can be done in a loving, understanding way when approached from a place of non-judgement or cultural or intellectual superiority.
There is so much more I could say about it, but for now I would love you to tell me what your eyes see in this video, and that you show it to people you know and get the sense of wonder as they unveil to you what they see through their own lenses.
#partnerdancing #embrace #touch #flow #fluidity #dance
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