Dancing the dance

I figured I should write about something I'm passionate about: dancing. Now, I can't tell you that I'm into any of that organized dancing, like Tango, Swing, or whatever. I mean I've tried those, but they just don't suit me. I'm more into freestyle dancing. That's kind of my personality: I don't like structure, I'm poorly organized, and I take delight in spontaneity and creativity. Thus, with freestyle, I'm not limited to a certain style of dance. Depending on the music and my mood, I dance in accordance to whatever feels right in the moment; this makes way for a wide range of dance moves.

I don't let any previous dance moves or styles guide my dance, but I instead make it up as I go. Sometimes it looks super ridiculous, sometimes it is graceful, but all the time it is an expression of myself. This is similar to the way brainstorming works. In working towards finding an idea for a project, you must just let the ideas flow and not hinder them with preconceptions or a fear of being too "out there." My dancing is basically taking the mental aspect of brainstorming and applying it to a physical activity. It's beautiful to let your body just flow and see what you can come up with. It's amazing the amount of coordination it takes to dance: at one time I can have an arm waving, a leg shaking, a head bobbing, and a torso moving around all at once. Despite all this action, it comes together for dance routine this is unique, I, daresay, attractive. I venture to call it attractive because I find it incredible that a bunch of seemingly random actions of my body can come together to create a work of art. This is like Systems Theory: when we bring together people with different skill sets and experiences and coordinate them, we can function smoothly and effectively like a body does when its individual parts all work.

Well, that's my thought about dancing and its connection to some cool stuff we've learned in COM 320. I probably should be getting to bed: I'm off to Tennessee to go camping and hiking for a week. Everyone enjoy your spring break and use it as a time to reflect on how blessed you are!

Love,
Andrew Battiato

PS: Thought I would leave a video of me dancing back when I had bigger hair, blonde hair, and I lived in the 80s.