“Dancing—even for a few minutes—increases my vitality, makes me feel larger, freer, more joyful, more exploratory, more alive. I’m in love with dance because the simple act of moving my body around its edges and then beyond its normal boundaries broadens and deepens my perception of reality and expands my sense of self. When I dance, the self that appears is non-verbal and broader and bigger and more timeless and nothing like ordinary consciousness for me. In certain instances, dance seems to enable me to completely break free of the confines of the self. It’s a real meditative rest from my thinking mind.”