The Right to Dance

Dancing. A birth right. For all cultures, at all ages.

Some cultures say the first sound we hear is the beat of the drum, mother’s heartbeat. Conceived in rhythm, we gestate to the beat. Born to dance, we heed the call of music, naturally moving from our tapping toes to our nodding heads, hips shake, torsos sway, feet take us away.

Our dancing feet schooled for millennia by the deep beat of mother earth and nature’s rhythms should never be trapped in concrete beliefs that all things earthy equal vulgar, crude, raunchy and rude. Or relegated to weekend escapes induced by intoxication. Dancing should occur daily. Spontaneous and ritual, wild and spiritual, fun and practiced, spectacular and accessible.

One could say repressed rhythm is criminal.