Beginnings…

Arriving here in California away from the beaucratic zigzag of HK, I feel a sense of utter relief. As my last weeks were filled with validating my identity; bank balances, numbers, figures, codes, security devices, visa’s, I felt a growing sense of frustration of being  distracted from what I was about to embark on; of feeling outside my body when all I wanted was to be IN my body. And thus I arrive here, in beautiful Marin county, feeling like I am returning home…

Stepping into Mountain Home Studio,  I felt both overwhelmed and excited to be finally standing in Anna Halprin’s studio amidst the redwood trees, breathing in the magic energy with the knowledge that 50 years earlier this was the spot where dance was taken into the expressive arts . My body, soft, tired but receptive as to what may happen in the next three months, finding ease and clarity introducing myself in the opening circle through movement rather than stories of my ‘home‘ and ‘job‘, the body expressing the metaphorical self and the path to embodiment beginning…