Measured Movements & Calming Breaths

Feb 22-28  |  Measured Movements & Calming Breaths

Visited the Rose Museum with mom this week. We were both mesmerized and mellowed out by the works of Sharon Lockhart / Noa Eshkol. Five or six life sized video screen “boxes” were placed within the main gallery, each running film of men and women trained in a practice invented by dance choreographer Noa Eshkol in the 1950s. This practice was designed to categorize and assign numbers and symbols to the movements of the body.
As we walked through the dark gallery, these life sized men and women (now middle to older age) were slowly moving in a tai chi-like way to the sound of a metronome. You could hear their arms and legs softly brushing through the air and across the floor. It was surprisingly meditative and calming…
As I spent the next morning at the gym, practicing my own measured movements as prescribed by my gym’s elemental strengthening philosophy, I stared up at the old factory skylights full of crazed glass in blue, white and clear panes, and felt inspired once again…to take another measured, calming breath and keep on moving.