The Dancer’s Two Bodies
<p><em>She, a dancer, is attuned to my in-sync silence: the concordance between the motionlessness of my lips and the absence of an interior monologue in my head; I, an aphoristic writer, find her occasional out-of- sync silence in the realm of altered body, movement, time, sound, and silence into which dance projects her, as her lips continue briefly to move before the falling silence-over freezes her, arresting.</em></p> <p><em>A woman dancing alone is the figure of fidelity—of the music to her.</em></p> <p><em>The dancer practices assiduously each movement. These rehearsals to the music are to release a subtle body that moves perfectly without any training. This subtle body cannot make mistakes all the more because it is not dancing to the music but the music is accompanying it…</em></p>
Authors: Jalal Toufic
Designer: Hani Charaf
Editorial Coordinator: Dustin Cosentino, Ahmad Makia
Distribution Coordinator: Karen Marta
Editors: Jalal Toufic
ISBN: 978-9948-22-972-8