CONJURING PRESENT JOY
We will conjure future joy. What do you want for yourself, your family, your neighborhood, your city? We will talk about this. We will come up with some ideas we can make happen. We will let nothing exist. And we’ll dance. We will improvise movement and stories for and with one another; aware of what we believe about ourselves and what we completely make up. What joys have you experienced? Some stories will be voiced, some silent. (It’s the silent ones that are really exciting to me right now.) We will begin to be comfortable, really comfortable in silence. We will begin to understand and listen to silence. There will be a lot of watching, along with the doing. We will watch each other with keen interest, respect, and love. I told someone once that it might feel like watching a tree: you sit or stand or lay on the ground and watch the wind move through a tree; you notice if it’s in bloom, if its leaves are green or brown; you see the tree as well as all the in-between spaces; you notice that it reaches deep into the earth, that it rests within the sky.
