Dance

Losing yourself in the art of dancing is probably one of the more liberating experiences any human being can experience. You move every tiny little part of your body. You feel a freedom within your being that you have no idea what special thing about a sound is causing it but you let it flow.

Dance

We listen a song, we care about the song, we enjoy it.

My mother tongue is spanish. When I first started listening music in english I was around 10 years old. It was new to me and I didn’t quite understand the language. For me it was all about rhythms and the word intonation which is also a kind of rhythm.

Years went by and I got better at understanding the language; hence, the lyrics started to take an important role in my experience of listening music.

I listen the rhythms and now I listen the lyrics too. When we were kids none of us understood the language of words, we danced following simply our feelings.

From time to time we should get back to that primitive step in life. It may give you a chance to fully feel the art.

Stare at a painting, look at it. Immerse yourself in it. Feel it.

Listen to a song, let the deepest melodies get into your ear. Feel it.

Watch a movie, ask why the director chose that shot, why that song when the lovers meet or why that dress when the woman stands in front of the man she loves. Feel it.

Become a part of it.

When you dance, same happens. Don’t get yourself much into the lyrics, first feel the rhythm, feel it and soon you’ll be dancing along the song without realizing that song was in a language you did not even understand.

Surround yourself with art.

I got the chance to be a part of art groups and I found myself happily surprised when I found out some of my mates were related to worlds totally different than the “art world”. That’s when I realized how amazing is that art is a gift available for anyone, at anytime.

It’s within you: You dance, that’s art. You sing, that’s art. You breathe, that’s art. Your own heart makes music. That is ART. YOU are ART.

I asked Teri Gender Bender what art surrounded Kimono Kult (Nicole Turley, John Frusciante, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Teri Gender Bender, Laena Geronimo and Dante White) while they were recording “Hiding the Light”. She kindly replied:

"Estamos rodeados de paredes blancas con pinturas de Captain Beefheart"

“We are surrounded by white walls with paintings of Captain Beefheart”

Captain Beefheart was an american musician who later developed an interest in painting and he started doing it. He painted abstract expressionism paintings. In my opinion, as a major lover of Pollock’s work, one of the most powerful “kind” of “styles”. A shot of energy to your heart.

It is important to stay in touch with primitive things. abstract expressionism comes directly from the heart, from the feelings. It’s the artist saying out loud -here I am, this is me, this is what I feel-

When we were kids we did not understand the lyrics of a song. Our senses, our body moved along the rhythm of a song. We simply danced following our feelings. We did not care if we were dancing ok or not; we did not care what others thought about us. We were dancing for the sake of it. Because we felt it and it made us happy. HAPPY.

Let’s go back to those times. Get lost in the art of dancing.