WHAT THE BODY WANTS

The body wants to dance.
It wants to get up off the floor and dance.
It wants to get up out of the chair, and dance;
to get from behind the desk and dance;
to get out with people and dance.
The body wants to move.
The body wants to move and touch
and move together with other bodies.
It wants to smell other bodies
and taste other bodies.
It wants to be up to it’s neck in body.
The body wants to be a body.
The body is tired of waiting
and resting beneath the mind.
The body falls asleep thinking.
It can’t stand the wait
between action and action. . .
It wants to move out into the world . . .
It wants warmth, sunshine,
breezes and wet sand between its toes.
It wants to jump in water and float.
It wants to fly.
It wants to feel with every cell
the pull of gravity
and the centrifugal force of turning.
It wants its energy
and it wants its peace and tranquility.
The body wants to know that it is not alone.
The body wants to vibrate to its own voice
and to feel harmony with other voices
and dissonance.
It wants to dance slow and dance fast,
to flow, to thrust, to bend, to be still.
It wants to make beautiful lines and to be seen.
The body wants everything.
It does not want to be bounded.
The body wants to dance. . .
—Jim Gunshinan