1. Movement training embodies Wu Wei: Effortlessness. Action through non-action.
A Taoist philosophy. This is the feeling of being mobilized to act, not forcing oneself to train out of a sense of need or guilt. Rather, movement training implies the want to explore motion, with an intrinsic momentum pushing you forward, curiously.
2. Movement quality vs. exercise quantity: How much do I really need to lift be “strong”?
Strength is only one component of fitness that dancers require. Too much “exercise” interferes with movement quality.
3. Exercise requires movement, but movement does not always imply exercise.
4. Movement helps us enter flow state.
Because there is a goal in mind beyond working hard and sweating, which is generally what comes to mind when we hear the word “exercise”.
5. Movement teaches us about ourselves and the world.
Photograph by Andrew Nash.
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