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. dream operator circa 1990 by keith v. goodman

  2. finger snake

  3. Potty

  4. i still got it

  5. leaping against the walls slapping the cieling with glee

  6. grim fandango

  7. ross angeles shuffle

  8. never ending attempt to arrive

  9. battuta angriff

  10. clacker in a clown suit

  11. ghost electricity howls on the bones of her face

  12. pack unpack repack move

  13. contrived dance

  14. make the baby laugh makes me laugh

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

  16. bad shoes/zen

  17. startrek = starwars = forever

  18. pms dance

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

  20. i feel guilty

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

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

  23. pigfoot

  24. summer´s here & feels sooooooooo good

  25. you make me think i have good news

  26. drop down and get your eagle on

  27. happy food

  28. light and in all directions

  29. building a circle

  30. dig deep down and throw it up

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

  32. coughing really hard

  33. inside out

  34. tempheh reuben

  35. throw it out and grab it back

  36. torches of fire

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

  38. recumbent bike dance

  39. girlfriends feet on top of my feet

  40. event space

  41. anything YES, YES, YES

  42. stagnating

  43. makin bacon

  44. reliving and learning

  45. fawn

  46. everything

  47. stuck in place

  48. ackward make fun of yourself

  49. rowchick

  50. awake and tired

  51. socks on smooth floor

  52. in my kitchen, thinking of you

  53. air is my skin

  54. shivering on the sidewalk watching tahni’s

  55. laughing crying screaming freedom restraint

  56. being like water

  57. boarding pass

  58. cold footed linoleum floor

  59. sweaty, beating, percussive

  60. shake it

  61. love

  62. tree

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

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

  65. carrying too many heavy things too far

  66. riding my bike

  67. it looked better in my mind

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

  69. koyaanisqatsihands

  70. wanting antarctic

  71. tumbleweed downstairs laundry overload

  72. death to all those who would whimper and cry

  73. I used to do ballet

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

  75. something in the way you move

  76. cannot decide between life or death this morning

  77. baby please close your eyes

  78. antarctic

  79. dissertation

  80. soft spiritual cheerleading turning into possession casual party

  81. wrong job because it’s not stressful

  82. somnambulence

  83. stiff neck

  84. lymphopotmus

  85. laborous excitement

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

  87. keeping my head on my shoulders

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

  89. is it dental hugiene or is it death?

  90. family/work

  91. mediation

  92. what the hell is brand voice

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

  94. eyelash dance

  95. skating on ice

  96. important thing is to love

  97. Rimsky’s skating

  98. peepee dance

  99. painting a 14 foot ceiling w/ extention pole

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

  101. floating

  102. can’t get out of bed

  103. new /old surroundings

  104. martini shaker

  105. a friendship forged in CanCun :)

  106. absent and present and absent and present

  107. knocking my knee, bruise

  108. as still as possible

  109. floor modeler

  110. yearning for more dance

  111. blue monday sprinkler

  112. gggggrrrrRRROOOOOWWWWWRRRrrrrr

  113. gggggrrrrRRROOOOOWWWWWRRRrrrrr let’s fuck already,

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

  115. alone in my zone

  116. X Men claws up the spine

  117. molly ringwald

  118. space walk boogie

  119. will never live this down

  120. gracefully bumbling my way through life

  121. make it stick limbo dance

  122. finding my way home

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

  124. remembering this differently

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

  126. bap bada!

  127. falling roughly

  128. in between

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

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

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

  132. walking down the hall

  133. world is my oyster

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

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

  136. trying to flirt

  137. learning, unlearning, relearning

  138. Two step

  139. i’m juiced up

  140. surrender to the sweetness

  141. concrete floor in my vertebrae

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

  143. carnaval free pleasurable

  144. i finally got off the plane!

  145. where do i go from here

  146. booty shake!!!

  147. worship

  148. when is my girl coming home

  149. anything nothing

  150. children of the world

  151. happy to see you

  152. sunday morning dusting dance

  153. endless ocean endless sky

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

  155. eggshell

  156. my pet dog likes to

  157. toucan

  158. um and that yes

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

  160. cut it out

  161. fawm

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

  163. feeling life in the belly of my being

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

  165. piling my head with my to do list

  166. i just got laid

  167. a wednesday, have to get out of bed

  168. around the kitchen makin’ love

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

  170. walking down the hall and back

  171. did I scare you because I scared myself

  172. feels good but doesn’t look good dance

  173. i just had the best meal of my life

  174. shifting self identification

  175. denial

  176. whipping cream

  177. being better me

  178. happy stomping and jumping in your place

  179. mom-constantly-distracted

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

  181. elephant in your pants laughing hysterical

  182. walking on an empty stomach

  183. i’m about to getmesome

  184. it’s all so clear to me now

  185. bend way back

  186. the egg beaters

  187. at weddings, the robot dance.

  188. losing yourself in love

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

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

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

  192. ooff

  193. sesame street frolic w/flexible hips

  194. first time dancing to prince with my mom

  195. clean snow off and out

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

  197. my family bites each other

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

  199. ancestral pride

  200. shalanga-lang

  201. in love with your ex

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

  203. question

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

  205. g

  206. mustard

  207. going to somewhere?

  208. # here here now now dance #

  209. the paint’s alive

  210. here here now now dance

  211. snowed-in dance

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

  213. tired of death

  214. butterfly in my stomach dance

  215. sexy

  216. deny

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

  218. loving the legs

  219. walk like you mean it

  220. walk like you really mean it

  221. booty

  222. lonely in a cloud

  223. tit

  224. morning sickness shuffle

  225. release the tension shake-down

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

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

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

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

  230. moment of utter release

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

  232. craigslist addict

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

  234. evolution of adam and eve

  235. too much coffee dance

  236. so low you rip your jeans

  237. kissing the sweat off of your neck

  238. juggling romance, love, and inspiratrion

  239. Molly Ringwald Carpet Dance

  240. bottomless pow slash dance

  241. re-live last night

  242. relieved that the storm is over

  243. skeleton

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

  245. (waiting for the) bus dance

  246. orange

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

  248. mourning

  249. faking it till it becomes real

  250. i stepped on something mysterious and gross

  251. I survived the day dance

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

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

  254. meeting a new person dance

  255. right here in the center, movement began

  256. broken ankle hop and crutch

  257. two headed: nice person/rage

  258. drop, look, hand

  259. stepping into liquid

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

  261. boogie nation

  262. an incredible talent

  263. p-funk – flashlight, the mothership connection

  264. get it all out

  265. i have never felt so free

  266. excited grinning jumpy

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

  268. if i stop dancing the world will blow up

  269. lost in manila

  270. I’ve lost it…dance

  271. borderline

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

  273. trying to dance like that girl across the room

  274. healing

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

  276. bouncing the crying baby

  277. burst of light

  278. sun

  279. the chameleon

  280. geez I need to pee

  281. make the coffee

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

  283. burping

  284. the dance of waiting to dance

  285. floating through deep powder

  286. 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

  287. i can’t dance

  288. wake up and stretch like a kitty cat

  289. avoidance

  290. Sevilla Buddha Bar

  291. listen to your cold bones

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

  293. bored

  294. I am terrified and shaking

  295. happy

  296. waiting for tri-met

  297. asleep/awake bike in a trance

  298. wet noodle popsicle

  299. accidental tammy faye bakker memorial

  300. eating real good food

  301. bathroom is full

  302. “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

  303. chronic tv

  304. splendour

  305. anything but safety

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

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

  308. starburst

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

  310. fucking

  311. can never jump enough

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

  313. listening to the tomato sliding across my breast

  314. cloud geometry in technicolor

  315. new pants

  316. she said I am a spastic dancer

  317. climbing an apple tree and reaching

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

  319. spunky no time

  320. stevie nicks

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

  322. i miss adam

  323. dreamy etheral

  324. what’s over the rainbow

  325. backbend

  326. fast & fierce

  327. arrow of light

  328. pushing through water

  329. sfffsfsf

  330. ohmygod

  331. i am sitting

  332. awkward moments

  333. string

  334. dance till you fall to the floor

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

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

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

  338. flying by the seat of my pants

  339. sucking my stomach in

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

  341. it made my hair fly

  342. blowing your dress up over the heater

  343. want to be a runner

  344. misdirected

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

  346. no dancing

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

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

  349. it made my hair fly

  350. today is going to be a better day

  351. poodle

  352. monologue

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

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

  355. naked goat

  356. no one’s home

  357. the liquidity of identity dance

  358. skank is the animalistic warrior unleashed

  359. not thinking what im thinking while i watch you

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

  361. second thoughts about her

  362. dance you can’t

  363. waking the body

  364. rusty zipper

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

  366. I wont eat 5 ice cream sandwiches today

  367. morracan breakdancers teaching moves

  368. i am not in love with him anymore

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

  370. puppytwist

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

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

  373. out dance a crazy girl hogging the floor

  374. wiggle-butt

  375. trying to catch the feral cats

  376. angry faced morning

  377. the need to make Leigh laugh

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

  379. fill in the blank

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

  381. seperate body pary simultaneous

  382. buried under a memory of happiness

  383. where am i going

  384. soulcessation

  385. trouble

  386. sick to my stomach I love you that much

  387. grandfather death

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

  389. mega soul crusher