What does it mean to get lost in the dance?
This is a reading of a short story I wrote called The Dancer, about that moment in dancing where the counting goes away and you get totally lost in the moment. It is similar to the idea of the flow state. Dancing has this incredible transcendent aspect to it, which is not often talked about!
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"We clear the table out of the way. The rug becomes our dance floor. She changes the song, from the ballad to a slow jazz number, slow enough to make me nervous. I grab her hands. She steps closer. Close enough that I become too aware of her body, close enough that we breach the realm of platonic decency and into the beginnings of something else. Before I can think, I move, stepping towards her and back again, all while counting in my head. That endless 1-2-3, 1-2-3."
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