I Remember Dancing on a Stage

What I remember the most about dancing on a stage, is not the applause or the rehearsals leading up to a performance. What I remember, is the feeling that always took over as a performance began.
Dancers train the body and the mind to do very specific tasks. But all that repetition and training is so that we can trust our physical capacity and know that in a moment we have the capability to completely surrender.
Great dance does not come from thinking.
Great dance comes from surrendering.
The stage is a doorway into magical places where one earns entrance with blood, sweat, and tears. But once we have earned those coveted moments to be on a stage in front of a paying audience, we also have to learn how to completely let go and allow the music from the orchestra, and the focused dreams of an audience come fully into our being and move us beyond the self, beyond our ego, beyond trying, and into the portals of magic that such places hold.
There are certain types of intuitive knowing that hit us out of the blue. But real magic requires determination, practice, and then the ability to feel beyond the minds definitions of perfection and allow the forces of something that is outside the body to move into the physical reality in which we all exist. But such a transference of these types of powerful energies do not exist in this world for long. They have to be called in and require great effort to learn how to hone and contain them for specific, precious moments in time.
Dance is a magnet that pulls at something that (to a dancer) is familiar but to others can seem elusive. To us, such a force is why we strive for an elusive ideal, and why we are so relentless in our self-discipline and practice.
On a stage when things are just right, we move into a “Goldilocks Zone.” This is a place where all things and energies seem to finally align in a form of perfection. We realize that it is not that we are perfect, but in that moment we become a part of a greater flow that is perfect.
Then the “energy of dance” carries us along the waves and ripples of time and space into some cosmic place of flow.
Those moments that I have been in the center of the flow, have been beyond magical! They are eternal and allow us to touch our cosmic self that is vast and that moves beyond the dimensions of time and space.
In such moments, I have felt limitless, ancient, and wise.
In such moments, there are no mistakes or mishaps. And what is funny is that when such moments happen, that does not mean … things go perfectly.
It only means that in that moment, the mistakes are their own perfection because they allow us to be so aligned with the flow that when things fail, they actually just move with another energy that requires something more of us.
When this type of magic is happening, we understand our own cosmic flow and evolution. We have a glimpse into that bigger and vaster self that is riding the waves of many different moments in time. We are reconnected to something that is us that is so very ancient and wise.
In those moments, we recognize something outside of us … that is us.
I wish for all souls to feel such a place where we move beyond our known reality and into our higher self.
I wish for all souls to remember that all forms of art are doorways for us to connect to places and spaces that can help us recognize that we are magic … even when we are caught up in the attraction of time … and playing in the realms of limitation.
In that moment we begin to realize that all the illusions … are of our own creation.

~Suzanne Wagner~