In 2016 a professional cellist and Dalcroze teacher was affected by a progressive and painful disease of the small nerves, which forced her to use a wheelchair and to give up playing the cello. Instead of throwing in the towel, she started writing and exploring her physical potentials for musical expression by modern dance in a wheelchair. Out of her poem “The sound of my ability” she created a solo dance performance using the recorded music of a cello solo played by herself before the illness. The processes of acceptance and creating the choreography are explained by five phases: wondering about the new situation, exploring out of the comfort zone, permitting the feeling, crossing borders and bearing mind and body. “Why not?” has been the constant question to integrate Dalcroze Eurhythmics and to enter each next phase. One crosses the borders of possibilities by just doing it. Resilience needs movement.
Marlies Muijzers (Fri,) studied this question.