ongoing research

A list is being compiled of your movement through the world in your words. You are not alone. I am asking every visitor to my site to take a moment and send along a sentence that describes a dance you have done in your life.

the / a dance
  1. the “search for something truly inspiring” dance as opposed to my usual “sad things are as shallow as I hoped they weren’t”

  2. gomer pyle

  3. get me out of here

  4. gratitude

  5. jeez, I need to move around more

  6. i didn’t know her well and now i never will

  7. i had this obsession at 10 years old or so with getting down a turn with hip/leg fully flexed (you hold it above your head) where I took it all the way into the splits:) (completely impossible & very funny to realize:))

  8. my friend just died I can’t believe it

  9. dying dog dance, the essence of my old dog Gus swooshes into my body his legs in my arms&legs his head in my head away we go me dancing him he dancing me

  10. I got a new bike

  11. trying to catch something i just dropped on my foot to keep it from hitting the floor too hard

  12. I smell good

  13. these broken damn shoes on this damn concrete

  14. geez I need to pee

  15. opening and sorting the mail

  16. opening the mail

  17. elephant in the room

  18. two kids, wife busy business

  19. Elegancy of the Walz

  20. my half-drunk-on-red-wine, with bjork music playing, in my kitchen, in private, more graceful than if i were on a stage

  21. hi

  22. anxious am I doing this right

  23. pivoting from the sink to the cutting board, vegetables in hand

  24. noodle. (a variation of early break dancing)

  25. funny

  26. twitch

  27. hop from the van, spin, shut door with foot

  28. the I DON’T CARE HOW I LOOK, I LOVE THIS MUSIC AND I’M GONNA DANCE

  29. anything you do has my heart, and I met you so softly you could not hear my attraction but I’m such a fool for this newfound crush, I can feel the earth spin

  30. anything you do has my heart, and I met you so softly you could not hear my attraction

  31. anything you do has my heart, and I met you softly

  32. anything you do has my heart

  33. citrinitas

  34. shut up and dance

  35. making fun of the superiority dance

  36. meow

  37. wake up with regret and sweet cream

  38. go to hospital, split in two, go home a mother

  39. sweaty soul makeout with a stranger even though I have a boyfriend

  40. baby dear, just born

  41. no one is watching, pretend i am 5 years old

  42. rolling around on the ground in filth and crawling between legs

  43. pinky thumb tigerclaw

  44. pinky thumb tigerclaw look back receive candy slap leg ward away the devil and chant

  45. hovering around the stovetop

  46. sad i am crying and don’t know how to go on

  47. on my own again angry and strong

  48. where-are-my-fucking-KEYS

  49. if only i had a space and a harpsichordist to play bach for me

  50. sidestep the truth

  51. tick-bit girl

  52. nothing

  53. 7th grade cotillion

  54. spin until you drop

  55. hang the saucepan carefully

  56. wearing a showercap while feeding the cat

  57. legs of lead

  58. menstruation

  59. the sphere of energy shared with a friend

  60. swoon at the moon

  61. a disco competition to Donna Summer’s last

  62. mexican congo zombification

  63. falling down

  64. it’s a nice day let’s go out and play

  65. dance everyday as a creative act

  66. ascending timeless

  67. post performance pained sleep

  68. relationship between this and that, how do they talk to each other, influence each other

  69. didn’t realize what I said was completely wrong, so I will distract you with my goofiness

  70. cartop coffee safe arrival home

  71. DILLOM

  72. i got drunk and danced and reinjured my sprained knee

  73. flooding the basement with love

  74. Finding out Tahni Holt is still as adorable and outgoing as she was in high school

  75. Elaine Benes from Sienfeld

  76. dancy

  77. i hate you, don’t leave me

  78. how did I end up as this adult

  79. i don’t want to change another poopy diaper

  80. naked

  81. To the north, to the north, to the north in goneness I dance homeward.

  82. michael jackson

  83. hugging my grandma a few extra moments in case it is the last time

  84. the “open”

  85. art has ruined my life

  86. yummy food

  87. this is my story (the one i kinda have to tell)

  88. we fought in so many ways

  89. giving of myself without giving myself away

  90. iamtired

  91. i’m getting married today

  92. in-the-now-or-never live dance

  93. skipping 30 year old

  94. I don’t get to MOVE enough

  95. slide through the sheets

  96. moshpit

  97. pregnant belly striptease

  98. molecule

  99. running in the czech woods

  100. the post piss willies dance….you know the one.

  101. funk

  102. sfdf

  103. adfw

  104. oh, that one time when i was i was 7 at the lake of the ozarks clog type dance with overalls jean skirt outfit and perm

  105. scratch your eyeball

  106. getting rid of my 5-year-old’s stir-crazies to the tune of No Doubt

  107. reviving power of dance

  108. word

  109. moving, sexing, complicated

  110. little danceroo

  111. last scene closes

  112. this-is-all-i-can-afford-for-our-anniversary

  113. my neck is stiff but my soul feels good

  114. cleaning my room

  115. acting like a giant over the grade school water fountain

  116. cant feel my legs yet dance oh there they are

  117. sneaky car dance when no one is looking

  118. cramps

  119. i am

  120. white girls CAN dance

  121. go

  122. making Matthias laugh

  123. going through every song in itunes/ inner

  124. ancestor’s

  125. feeling all the little muscles you’ve forgotten

  126. OMFG

  127. providing on outlet for openness and centered excitement through

  128. hangover shakeover

  129. cha cha cha

  130. had one too many

  131. dance to avoid talking to people

  132. pleasure to: seek, listen, stay in, undertand to an almost unstainable point the internal impulses, tugs, demands, heat, vibrations accompanied by emotional exposure. that is my

  133. this friday is just to long

  134. primal

  135. I closed my eyes

  136. leaping like an elephant

  137. meeting a Francis Bacon painting in a crowded museum

  138. bored with everything, everyone

  139. ?

  140. struggle to kick an addiction

  141. twitching in my seat, this dance is so good

  142. out of necessity

  143. i just got a letter

  144. vacuuming

  145. aggressively passive

  146. hippie chick

  147. iuhh

  148. kitty thinks my feet are prey

  149. what are you doing daddy?

  150. dance that only exists in dressing rooms

  151. wooden floor tap

  152. i wish i could kick higher

  153. reaching for something that has always been within

  154. underwater

  155. fake

  156. break

  157. TRYING TO SHRED HARDER AND FASTER THAN ANYONE

  158. I have to pee

  159. Every move I make… in striving for ulitmate harmony

  160. on going gestures, glides and slides of life

  161. “danse molle”

  162. I can’t wait any longer

  163. new bike shoulder scrunch

  164. moving only one joint

  165. i love you get out of my head

  166. naked vacuuming

  167. get it started, already, party

  168. sporting those feather earrings

  169. brandi alexander

  170. expectation

  171. fuck i am out of shape

  172. scratching bug bites

  173. deelay ceelay

  174. uncomfortable, don’t want to be here, don’t feel pretty, don’t look at me

  175. omg – that is a GIANT cockroach!

  176. you can put crazy toppings on your pizza

  177. i am really not alone

  178. alone in my kitchen with joy

  179. loud

  180. necessity

  181. humpin n bump bad lambadda

  182. ragdoll dance

  183. dream operator circa 1990 by keith v. goodman

  184. finger snake

  185. Potty

  186. i still got it

  187. leaping against the walls slapping the cieling with glee

  188. grim fandango

  189. ross angeles shuffle

  190. never ending attempt to arrive

  191. battuta angriff

  192. clacker in a clown suit

  193. ghost electricity howls on the bones of her face

  194. pack unpack repack move

  195. contrived dance

  196. make the baby laugh makes me laugh

  197. lost the baby ,now in the hospital parking lot

  198. bad shoes/zen

  199. startrek = starwars = forever

  200. pms dance

  201. waking up and wondering what’s going to happen next

  202. i feel guilty

  203. i am in love with you and i know i shouldn’t be

  204. tip-toe-twirl on the edge of the world

  205. pigfoot

  206. summer´s here & feels sooooooooo good

  207. you make me think i have good news

  208. drop down and get your eagle on

  209. happy food

  210. light and in all directions

  211. building a circle

  212. dig deep down and throw it up

  213. he moves through me deep, intense..im alive

  214. coughing really hard

  215. inside out

  216. tempheh reuben

  217. throw it out and grab it back

  218. torches of fire

  219. Jerash: Performed in Jordan at an arts festival in 1983

  220. recumbent bike dance

  221. girlfriends feet on top of my feet

  222. event space

  223. anything YES, YES, YES

  224. stagnating

  225. makin bacon

  226. reliving and learning

  227. fawn

  228. everything

  229. stuck in place

  230. ackward make fun of yourself

  231. rowchick

  232. awake and tired

  233. socks on smooth floor

  234. in my kitchen, thinking of you

  235. air is my skin

  236. shivering on the sidewalk watching tahni’s

  237. laughing crying screaming freedom restraint

  238. being like water

  239. boarding pass

  240. cold footed linoleum floor

  241. sweaty, beating, percussive

  242. shake it

  243. love

  244. tree

  245. SLIPPING ON MOSS COVERED, ABANDONED SIDEWALK, LATE AUTUMN

  246. trying to impress a girl who knows I cant dance

  247. carrying too many heavy things too far

  248. riding my bike

  249. it looked better in my mind

  250. Whirling, stomping, whisking across the floor in a firm embrace and laughing all the way!

  251. koyaanisqatsihands

  252. wanting antarctic

  253. tumbleweed downstairs laundry overload

  254. death to all those who would whimper and cry

  255. I used to do ballet

  256. can’t believe no one’s said “safety”

  257. something in the way you move

  258. cannot decide between life or death this morning

  259. baby please close your eyes

  260. antarctic

  261. dissertation

  262. soft spiritual cheerleading turning into possession casual party

  263. wrong job because it’s not stressful

  264. somnambulence

  265. stiff neck

  266. lymphopotmus

  267. laborous excitement

  268. head weaving to watch and follow the beauty of a cardinal

  269. keeping my head on my shoulders

  270. impatient with websites that don’t immediately show me what I want to see

  271. is it dental hugiene or is it death?

  272. family/work

  273. mediation

  274. what the hell is brand voice

  275. I’ve been work’n on the railroad

  276. eyelash dance

  277. skating on ice

  278. important thing is to love

  279. Rimsky’s skating

  280. peepee dance

  281. painting a 14 foot ceiling w/ extention pole

  282. the consensual ass kicking dance – left, right, left, right, Left

  283. floating

  284. can’t get out of bed

  285. new /old surroundings

  286. martini shaker

  287. a friendship forged in CanCun :)

  288. absent and present and absent and present

  289. knocking my knee, bruise

  290. as still as possible

  291. floor modeler

  292. yearning for more dance

  293. blue monday sprinkler

  294. gggggrrrrRRROOOOOWWWWWRRRrrrrr

  295. gggggrrrrRRROOOOOWWWWWRRRrrrrr let’s fuck already,

  296. picking up fallen writing insturments involving an explitive followed by medative crouching

  297. alone in my zone

  298. X Men claws up the spine

  299. molly ringwald

  300. space walk boogie

  301. will never live this down

  302. gracefully bumbling my way through life

  303. make it stick limbo dance

  304. finding my way home

  305. the changing and flowering dance, late, but not “never”

  306. remembering this differently

  307. My daily NY walk –slipping between the leans and sways of those sharing my sidewalk

  308. bap bada!

  309. falling roughly

  310. in between

  311. I move through the wind, and the wind moves through me

  312. w/ david bowie (every night) in red

  313. I can see my bone, I cut so deep

  314. walking down the hall

  315. world is my oyster

  316. the repellant dance, though I forget how it goes

  317. on a lover’s singing voice in the desert

  318. trying to flirt

  319. learning, unlearning, relearning

  320. Two step

  321. i’m juiced up

  322. surrender to the sweetness

  323. concrete floor in my vertebrae

  324. i gotta pee, and i can’t get across the street because of traffic

  325. carnaval free pleasurable

  326. i finally got off the plane!

  327. where do i go from here

  328. booty shake!!!

  329. worship

  330. when is my girl coming home

  331. anything nothing

  332. children of the world

  333. happy to see you

  334. sunday morning dusting dance

  335. endless ocean endless sky

  336. shuffle with wet feet on a towel carrying a teakettle with steam coming out

  337. eggshell

  338. my pet dog likes to

  339. toucan

  340. um and that yes

  341. getting out of my chair slowly and then falling back down, my limbs made unremarked and felicitous music

  342. cut it out

  343. fawm

  344. suprise cut myself while slicing bread, and it may be bad, but too scared to look yet

  345. feeling life in the belly of my being

  346. its the end of the day and i haven’t danced yet

  347. piling my head with my to do list

  348. i just got laid

  349. a wednesday, have to get out of bed

  350. around the kitchen makin’ love

  351. can’t sleep, loud wind full moon, can’t sleep

  352. walking down the hall and back

  353. did I scare you because I scared myself

  354. feels good but doesn’t look good dance

  355. i just had the best meal of my life

  356. shifting self identification

  357. denial

  358. whipping cream

  359. being better me

  360. happy stomping and jumping in your place

  361. mom-constantly-distracted

  362. the dance between feeling ‘loved’ and ‘not loved’

  363. elephant in your pants laughing hysterical

  364. walking on an empty stomach

  365. i’m about to getmesome

  366. it’s all so clear to me now

  367. bend way back

  368. the egg beaters

  369. at weddings, the robot dance.

  370. losing yourself in love

  371. I can’t stand people who can’t laugh at themselves

  372. early labor get-this-baby-out-of-me

  373. limp tongue and scratchy fingers, grumbly belly and angry legs

  374. ooff

  375. sesame street frolic w/flexible hips

  376. first time dancing to prince with my mom

  377. clean snow off and out

  378. the if I don’t dance I will be numb

  379. my family bites each other

  380. empty grocery store isle with my lover and can’t remember what we’re shopping for so let’s dance

  381. ancestral pride

  382. shalanga-lang

  383. in love with your ex

  384. I’m bad because I just ate a hot dog dance

  385. question

  386. i can see your lying and you can see that i can see your lying dance

  387. g

  388. mustard

  389. going to somewhere?

  390. # here here now now dance #

  391. the paint’s alive

  392. here here now now dance

  393. snowed-in dance

  394. right leg kick front then back, steam engine arms, balance and jump

  395. tired of death

  396. butterfly in my stomach dance

  397. sexy

  398. deny

  399. am i being ironic or am i actually hitting on you

  400. loving the legs

  401. walk like you mean it

  402. walk like you really mean it

  403. booty

  404. lonely in a cloud

  405. tit

  406. morning sickness shuffle

  407. release the tension shake-down

  408. pretending you can’t see, knowing you can

  409. darkeness increased, i’m sick, i’m sick, i’m sick; it is a horrifying

  410. crazy arm flailing, thom yorke crossed with michael stipe

  411. i’m in my living room and I can dance however I want to

  412. moment of utter release

  413. please fuck me after we do the disco dance of death/life

  414. craigslist addict

  415. i’m alone in my room playing a ukulele and pretending to be a rock star

  416. evolution of adam and eve

  417. too much coffee dance

  418. so low you rip your jeans

  419. kissing the sweat off of your neck

  420. juggling romance, love, and inspiratrion

  421. Molly Ringwald Carpet Dance

  422. bottomless pow slash dance

  423. re-live last night

  424. relieved that the storm is over

  425. skeleton

  426. we win the battle as long as my arms are raised to the heavens

  427. (waiting for the) bus dance

  428. orange

  429. default dance (oddly for me, jogging in place)

  430. mourning

  431. faking it till it becomes real

  432. i stepped on something mysterious and gross

  433. I survived the day dance

  434. the dance of get up and go scurry and settle down, burrow in and nourish, connect and commune, give give give recievcievciev

  435. it starts at my hips and i can’t stop it

  436. meeting a new person dance

  437. right here in the center, movement began

  438. broken ankle hop and crutch

  439. two headed: nice person/rage

  440. drop, look, hand

  441. stepping into liquid

  442. giddy and happy just before i come down with a cold

  443. boogie nation

  444. an incredible talent

  445. p-funk – flashlight, the mothership connection

  446. get it all out

  447. i have never felt so free

  448. excited grinning jumpy

  449. are you kidding me?! this is SO GREAT

  450. if i stop dancing the world will blow up

  451. lost in manila

  452. I’ve lost it…dance

  453. borderline

  454. really it all seems like a dance, especially when you notice it

  455. trying to dance like that girl across the room

  456. healing

  457. I really don’t want to be dancing right now

  458. bouncing the crying baby

  459. burst of light

  460. sun

  461. the chameleon

  462. geez I need to pee

  463. make the coffee

  464. waltz of the charm school instructor of the Bride of Frankstein

  465. burping

  466. the dance of waiting to dance

  467. floating through deep powder

  468. sometimes you hold it together so long you actually think you’re okay but then one evening your chest sinks through the floor and all you have left is the dance you just danced

  469. i can’t dance

  470. wake up and stretch like a kitty cat

  471. avoidance

  472. Sevilla Buddha Bar

  473. listen to your cold bones

  474. feeling more like i do now than i did when i got here

  475. bored

  476. I am terrified and shaking

  477. happy

  478. waiting for tri-met

  479. asleep/awake bike in a trance

  480. wet noodle popsicle

  481. accidental tammy faye bakker memorial

  482. eating real good food

  483. bathroom is full

  484. “potty position!” (like second position in ballet with hands on knees and pelvic thrusts while counting “one..two!”) followed by the “Solid Gold!” opening dance from the 70’s

  485. chronic tv

  486. splendour

  487. anything but safety

  488. Now missing Maracas being shaken by a jerky and malfuctioning showbiz pizza robot

  489. Invisible maracss being shaken by a broken showbiz pizza robot

  490. starburst

  491. my feet still reside at the bottom of my legs

  492. fucking

  493. can never jump enough

  494. I don’t speak your language but I can still dance with you

  495. listening to the tomato sliding across my breast

  496. cloud geometry in technicolor

  497. new pants

  498. she said I am a spastic dancer

  499. climbing an apple tree and reaching

  500. gazing across the room spiraling around each other until we touch

  501. spunky no time

  502. stevie nicks

  503. spontaneous release of flesh and bone in a moon lite

  504. i miss adam

  505. dreamy etheral

  506. what’s over the rainbow

  507. backbend

  508. fast & fierce

  509. arrow of light

  510. pushing through water

  511. sfffsfsf

  512. ohmygod

  513. i am sitting

  514. awkward moments

  515. string

  516. dance till you fall to the floor

  517. i have never danced in my adult life until now

  518. i’m sure we can find a way to get a little bit closer

  519. I learned it from my “crazy” uncle and now I repeat it because I’m about to become the “crazy” uncle

  520. flying by the seat of my pants

  521. sucking my stomach in

  522. flying down the hill with the wind on my face

  523. it made my hair fly

  524. blowing your dress up over the heater

  525. want to be a runner

  526. misdirected

  527. one with words from my past that were believed to be a poets

  528. no dancing

  529. slow, tired, anxious, crawl up and hands reaching

  530. my jeans just got out of the dryer and they are too tight

  531. it made my hair fly

  532. today is going to be a better day

  533. poodle

  534. monologue

  535. sitting at my desk in my office listening to jamming music

  536. i am so in love dance with the sit on top

  537. naked goat

  538. no one’s home

  539. the liquidity of identity dance

  540. skank is the animalistic warrior unleashed

  541. not thinking what im thinking while i watch you

  542. happy-to-be-eating-this-really-good-food

  543. second thoughts about her

  544. dance you can’t

  545. waking the body

  546. rusty zipper

  547. music is too loud but I really want to talk and connect with you

  548. I wont eat 5 ice cream sandwiches today

  549. morracan breakdancers teaching moves

  550. i am not in love with him anymore

  551. she’s so hot- i want her to think i’m hot

  552. puppytwist

  553. oops-i-crapped-my-pants (true story)

  554. so excited, can’t do anything else but dance

  555. out dance a crazy girl hogging the floor

  556. wiggle-butt

  557. trying to catch the feral cats

  558. angry faced morning

  559. the need to make Leigh laugh

  560. riding in the most beautiful morning and losing my breath in it

  561. fill in the blank

  562. prom, trying-to-not-get-a-boner

  563. seperate body pary simultaneous

  564. buried under a memory of happiness

  565. where am i going

  566. soulcessation

  567. trouble

  568. sick to my stomach I love you that much

  569. grandfather death

  570. Pat Benetar “we are young no one can tell us we’re wrong”

  571. mega soul crusher