Each CI module has been like getting an instruction manual for a new body part, and getting inspiration to explore, move and play. The feeling of landing on the wooden floor. Getting there on Friday evening after a long day and feeling that "now I'm here!", and realizing that it's not so much about "now I'm here in this room" but rather "now I'm here, in my body". And that feeling has been taught by dance that I can always go back to. At the beginning of the year, my goal was to investigate whether dance was something I could carry with me outside the dance floor, in everyday life. I think the annual program has proven that to me. I notice that I pay attention to my body in a completely new way, I no longer float through the world as if I were just a brain floating 1.5m above the ground. I move with my whole body. I notice how I stretch my vertebrae and try to put my weight on different parts of my foot while I wait for the subway, just because it's fun, and because I'm aware of those body parts. I notice that my dance is no longer about my whole body moving in a lump, but that I now let myself be led by my fingers, toes and hips.

Danielle