#passion burning

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"In his choreographies, William Forsythe combines the movement codex of classical ballet and its geometric principles of order, in which the bodies are exposed to paths of movement ranging from wave-like to rectangularly broken. The body order of classical ballet with its harmonious relationships of the limbs and geometrically guided figurations jumps apart in the flow of eruptive movements. Logical structures and geometries are arbitrarily lengthened, shortened, mirrored, broken, intersected, twisted, or shifted by Forsythe. The dancers' movements form invisible structures of lines, surfaces, and planes, which are repeatedly broken by the physical sequences." - Source

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“That’s what an angel is: dust, pressed into a diamond by the weight of this world” - Source

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“Growth and healing comes with incredible loss.”

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It’s neither red nor sweet. It doesn’t melt or turn over, break or harden, so it can’t feel pain, yearning, regret.

It doesn’t have  a tip to spin on, it isn’t even shapely— just a thick clutch of muscle, lopsided, mute. Still, I feel it inside its cage sounding a dull tattoo: I want, I want—

but I can’t open it: there’s no key. I can’t wear it on my sleeve, or tell you from the bottom of it how I feel. Here, it’s all yours, now— but you’ll have to take me, too.

- Heart to Heart by Rita Dove

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The shadow and the mirror image are the obvious analogs of the body, its immaterial doubles, and are thus the best means to represent the soul. They survive the body due to their immateriality - reflections constitute our essential selves. The image is more fundamental than its owner, in institutes his substance, his essential being, his “soul,” it is his most valuable part, it makes him a human being. It is his immortal part, his protection against death.

— M. Dolar, 1996 (137)