The documentary (To Sping from the Hand) of Paulus Berensohn has shifted my life in a way that I cannot articulate... Paulus Berensohn began pestering his parents about dance lessons at the age of 4. “Boys don’t dance,” was his parents’ response, or, more specifically, “Boys in our family don’t dance.” Despite this, his nagging continued. When a friend of his mother visited one afternoon, Mrs. Berensohn complained about young Paulus’s desire to dance. “But Edith,” the friend argued, “to dance is to spring from the hand of God.” ...... In the end, Berensohn has built a life of dancing for himself, a life that he fought for since the age of 4. He now encourages everyone he meets to look for the ways in which their bodies can be used to make even the most mundane of tasks a kind of dance. “I see all of life as a dance,” he said, and that is precisely what all his classes have shared with people around the world. Here he reads a Mary Oliver poem.... https://soundcloud/totm-film/paulus-berensohn-reads
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 14:09:47 +0000
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