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Learning to Enter Gravity
On Balance, Symbolism, and What Relationship Makes Possible
I did not arrive at symbolism because I wanted to escape reality. I arrived there because reality kept repeating itself.
A shape appears in a myth, then in a body, then in a relationship. A pattern in a story resembles a pattern in movement. A symbol that first seems abstract begins to look less like an invention and more like a way human beings have learned to recognize recurring structures.
That is what drew me in. Not the idea that a symbol has one secret meaning hidden behind it, waiting to be decoded, but almost the opposite: a living symbol seems able to hold many expressions of the same underlying relationship.
A circle can be a boundary, a cycle, a return, a container, a whole. A threshold can be a doorway, adolescence, grief, initiation, or the moment before a decision. The image changes, but something in the structure remains recognizable.
I began to wonder whether symbols survive because they describe patterns that keep happening.
Dance taught me to look at those patterns through the body. A dancer quickly understands that nothing happens in isolation. Movement is produced through relationship.
