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DANCE
- Yoland Skeete
- Feb 2
- 2 min read
2/2/26
The dance inside me moves my body when it does not move, moves my mind when it does not move, moves my senses when they do not move, moves the air around me, …..lying on the air, as it floats, as it is breathed, as it is kissed, as it is "the dance". If I could be the air I’d be the air, if I could be the wind I’d be the wind, if I could lie on my soul and travel thru the energy that is and just be, if I could, if only I could. The beat of the drum and the beat of my heart are one, the beat of the universe is the beat of my heart, the beat of every soul, every spirit, every sensation, every thought, every song, every sound….every heart, every pore of my body moves with the rhythmmmm………of the dance!
What is it about music that ..like a striking hand ..reaches out to grab our heart and beat out the rhythm turning our bodies into a drum. I have always wondered why I have had this instinctual feeling, a need to hear the drum. All countries, all cultures, use the drum in their music, in their tribal music and all countries and all cultures are tribal. In the movie “The Matrix”, there is a dance scene reminiscent of the 60’s California hippie movement. The scene takes place just before ZION is about to be annihilated. I love this scene and still do today.- My only disappointment was that it was a very short scene.
Funny this land of “perfection” is called Zion, and what does “zion” mean?
Initially, Zion was a Jebusite stronghold in Jerusalem that David conquered, making it the City of David.
So, it is a Jewish word meaning City of God. But who is God in that film. Is it Neo, the architect, the auricle, it’s never made clear!
But back to the dance it’s interesting that in the film, dance is the release from the fears and dangers that are on the edge. The scene presents a deep rhythmic drumming that carries the viewer over the heads of the moving bodies. The DRUM! The Heart beat! Every culture has a drum playing a very important part, usually a central one in all performances that that culture has. British colonizers arriving in Africa or India, were terrified of the drumming they heard. Every ancient war had a drum. In Vietnam, the soldiers played rock and roll music as they strafed the fleeing bodies and fields below. The rhythm heightened their sense of purpose and gave them relief from the horrors they were perpetrating. It was their escape. So, the drum allows us to escape. In African religions and other religions too, the drum heightens the sense of communication with the “GOD”. The entity deep inside our psyche that is connected to the rhythm of the universe. Do you know there is a rhythm of the universe, a dance for the senses, a dance for every star, every comet, every ……..check it out! There are lots on internet about drums and music in the universe – check it out.
LETS DANCE!
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