Movement as dance

W e were designed to move. Our physical selves hunger for movement and our psyches are deprived if the experience of moving as an integrated being is never realized. As infants, nature rewards our non-purposeful movement by promising pleasure. If this were not so, the developmental process could not take place. But we leave behind the practice of moving just because it feels good for more task-oriented motives. Once we leave childhood we seldom move just for the rewards inherent in the doing. Our storehouse of movement in terms of physical range and variety shrinks, while inversely we are collecting life's experiences. We really need a number of media, among them movement, with which to express our responses.