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Magazine
Not Dancing On My Own

by Editor Paulo Abrantes


“Dance of the Whirling Dervishes” by Erhan Dayi


“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music”
 
~Friedrich Nietzsche, dixit~


“Dance is the hidden language of the soul /  dancers are the messengers of the gods 
~Martha Graham, dixit~  
                     

 


“Ghost Opera #1” by Denis Olivier

 
 


“passion” by Claudio Solera

 
 


“Satto” by King Douglas


Mankind always found a way to express and communicate through ages.
Photography is a way to communicate, as they say, to express feelings, emotions, to tell a story, to induce a thought, to send a message, to make a statement.

 


“butoh dancer” by Branislav Fabijanic

 
 


“butterflies” by storytaylor

 
 


“2-centimeter” by Michael Papendieck


Even before language as primary code being used, gesture come out as way to communicate and express feelings and, with gesture, dancing come along ages away before language and words – as sounds, first, and words, after.
That´s why we can remember dancing in human natural history as for so long we exist as human kind and before.

 


“The fame is just behind the doors” by Davor Plesa


 


“untitled” by Dalibor Talajic

 
 


“Spin” by Henry Trust


It´s like an animal thing, so old and so primary that we can even found something similar in the natural wild animal kingdom, and not just in “mammals” but also in oceans, rivers and skies of our planet.
Dancing is being for some centuries associated to music and maybe is one of the most developed and refined techniques for humans to communicate with each other and to express feelings.

 


“I believe I can fly” by Joni Irwanto-KLIKMOTO.com

 
 


“Circular Synergy” by Osher Partovi

 
 


“Dance” by Ran Djur


There is war dancing; ritual dancing, mating dancing, couple dancing, rock dancing, classic dancing, rumba, waltz, tango, contemporary dancing, jazz, swing, samba, and so on and so on…, some lasting more than others: remember break dance?

 

 
 


“Ballerina” by Vivian Ainsalu

 
 


“desire” by narsiskus tedy


Anyway, time to time, a new style is born. Like break dance. It was a need of a particular generation to express themselves and to communicate some kind of message in a particular and different way with a particular and different kind of music. The same, when Elvis tried the first steps when bouncing his hips on television.

 


“Melancholia” by Jure Kravanja

 
 


“2 in motion” by DdiArte


 


“High above the sky” by Martin Krystynek, QEP


Every culture, every society, have developed some particular way of dancing and now, with the world going more and more global, in a daily bases and at supersonic speed, we have a “gazillion” choices to suite every personal taste for dancing. No excuses for not going to.

 


“Dress rehearsal” by Mel Brackstone

 
 


“soaring” by Alexandr

 
 


“Ballerina” by gelinda vitale


Science helps a little to convince the most sceptics: recent studies demonstrate that dancing improves brain function on a variety of levels, showing how different types of practice allow dancers to achieve peak performance by blending cerebral and cognitive thought processes with muscle memory and “proprioception” held in the cerebellum. Through regular aerobic training that incorporates some type of dance at least once a week anyone can maximize this brain function.

 


“tree” by Lukasz Kozlowski

 
 


“The dancer” by Domingos Monteiro

 
 


“Julia's Dance” by Renato Manzi


Scientists gave little thought to the neurological effects of dance until relatively recently, when researchers began to investigate the complex mental coordination that dance requires. In a 2008 article in Scientific American magazine, a Columbia University neuroscientist posited that synchronizing music and movement – dance, essentially – constitutes a “pleasure double play”. Music stimulates the brain’s reward centers while dance activates its sensory and motor circuits.

 


“Are you ready...” by Rullyanto Wibisono

 
 


“Anna OI” by Alexander Yakovlev

 
 


“black and white circle” by Romina Miletik


In the other side, movie industry quickly understood the potential of dancing to communicate and grab the audience to the screen even before words could be heard in a movie theatre. And after, when sound came up, musicals where the standard for telling a story, with lots of dancing for something like 3 hours of analogue beauty, mixing amazing dancing performances, organic sound on the speakers and a lot of noise, scratches and pastel colours in “Technicolor” on the “Panavision” screen. Even contemporary film directors and actors couldn’t escape this kind of power in dancing: Coppola and Travolta just to point an example, and the movies made around the “dancing communication code” are just zillions in every category: One From the Heart, Mamma Mia, Hair, A Chorus Line, La La Land, Moulin Rouge, Sweeny Todd, Grease, Saturday Night Fever, Dancing in the Dark, Chicago and the list is just endless.

 


“Sanctuary-3” by Rob Li

 
 


“untitled” by Tapio Hyvönen


 


“Classic Spin” by Osher Partovi


And you, when was the last time you went out dancing?

 


"Lines” by Elad Nissim


 


“Fly” by Ornit Vita

 
 


“the myst of perempoean” by narsiskus tedy


Besides the usual and common sense for the word dancing, "Dancing" is often related to aesthetics and very often with “ballet”. In the 1x community, many authors feel compelled to demonstrate all the beauty there is in dancing: Art being attracted to Art, we could say! The wonderful dance photographs in this gallery all respond perfectly well to this narrative. 

 


“Russian Symmetrie” by Andreas-Joachim Lins

 
 


“Dance on glass...” by MaXu

 
 


“This Is It” by digipix76


 


“Catch the limit” by Michael Papendieck

 
 


“Exploration 125” by PacoNavarro

 
 


“Dance Like No One Is Watching” by Ario Wibisono

 
 


“Warsaw Ballet” by Piotr Leczkowski
 
Write
Wonderful selection to accompany this fine article. Thank you Paulo and Yvette!
many thanks, Luc
Superb dancing series!! Congratulations Paulo for the article! Congratulations also to all the selected authors!
many thanks, Marius
Great article and outstanding photos, Paulo! Many thanks, you did a fantastic job!!! Many congrats to all the photographers who have their images selected. Cheers, Yvette
many thanks, Yvette
Many wonderful and beautiful works! Thank you for a wonderful article !!
many thanks, Teruhiko
Beautiful serial dance images, congrats to the authors ... thank you Paulo and Yvette!!
it´s me who should thank you, Jacob
Thanks for your appreciation, Jacob! All honour goes to Paulo and the authors!!!