Finding Balance in Dance with Mindful Dance Dimensions

Mindful Dance Dimensions is a holistic model for navigating the dance world. With a fully dimensional view of what is involved in the creation, performance, education, and administration of dance, we can make smarter, healthier, balanced decisions. Emphasis is on finding balance in all dimensions. Using the metaphor of the classic Greek and Buddhist elements (note: Chinese elements differ), Dance Dimensions lays the foundation for elemental balance in all facets of dance.

The traditional Greek elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Essence have been used throughout history as metaphors of life’s many dimensions. If you list every aspect of dance, you will find they each fit into one of these five categories. Most people involved in the dance world take a one-dimensional approach. The choreographer who sees a dancer only as a physical body to be ordered around and shaped, does not recognize the value of the individual dancer’s heart, spirit, mind, or soul.