emily ann
there are angels in your angles
Dance with a girl three times, said 19th century novelist Anthony Trollope, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music–about affairs masculine and feminine–then take the leap in the dark.
It’s not particularly sound pre-marital advice, nor would anybody today consider it an enlightened approach toward gender relations…but Trollope was right in one thing. The way you dance reveals a lot about who you are. Dance is the only art in which the body is the instrument of creation, the act of creation, and the creation itself.
People talk a lot of nonsense about dance and dancing, but this one thing is true: it is always always better to dance than not dance. It is always always better to want to dance than want not to dance. Dance at the altar on your wedding day, dance in the empty rooms of your cold apartment, dance when placed before the firing squad, dance when praying, dance when you’re old and your bones ache. Dance at every appropriate opportunity, and dance at most of the inappropriate opportunities.
As for Trollope and his ‘little questions,’ the answers are always in the dance. The answers are the dance.
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