Republic of Movement

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Movement as language

Movement is not a language...

Movement IS language.

As Merleau Ponty says of language - “there is only one language in a state of becoming... that is becoming different from itself while remaining the same”.

There isn’t some collection of “movements”, but just movement as dynamic phenomenon, a non-static entity that unfolds into the many manifestations that we call movements, and is never really distinct from those many manifestations, but neither is it apart from them...

To see movement at the same hierarchical level AS language, is to realize the enormity of what it is, can be, and can bring into our lives as container...