improvdanceskate

A new way of being on the skateboard begins to seep in.

As I flow around the San Rafael medium sized bowl my arms dances with the curves of my flight. I am within myself and listening to the body talk.

As I flow around the big bowl my upper body dances, dances in a way that helps me feel the bowl more.

I come from a dance background, a contact improv background where I feel with my body and let if flow the rhythms from within. Contact improv is a dance form where you are in constant contact with another as you dance - rolling your arms, shoulders, back, legs, head across each other. My body softens is this, listening to the other.

As I dance on my skateboard my body begins to listen to more, to new forms of movement appearing.

As I come out of the big bowl where I had some privacy as its sunk in out of view from the other parts of the skatepark, where in this privacy I could try out some of these dance moves. As I come out and scan across the park looking at the kids skateboard, I realise something new is dawning. A new way of being on the skateboard.

danceboard

my shoulders and arms sway forth in a dance as i carve down the street. and they flow in the rhythm of the side to side sways. and i feel the beauty, the glide down the hill with the body dancing with the carving...