The Dance of the Magic Paint Brush: One of the Dance Master Concepts

By Cincinnatus Hibbard

The magical virtue of this simple concept is to imbue you with the faculty of improvising dance as freely as you do language.
Its freedom and its fecundity in improvising new dance of unlimited complexity
ranks it a one of the master concepts of dance.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: May 15, 2015
• ISBN: 9781483554457

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Dances

THE DANCE OF THE MAGIC PAINT BRUSH

[ Note : This speech was written and originally addressed to a class

In the winter of 2015.

I was invited to present the class with instrumental or advantageous

Information or technique.

In order to connect with a mainstream artist, I chose to present the political

Instrumentality of making art in public : social importance, access and choice. ]

I have something,

[ beat ]

An advantage.

[ beat ]

And

Every Saturday Night

It turns rivals into by-standers,

And passers-by.

[ In time with his words, the speaker mimes

A threatening person then a person expressing fear and awe ]

I will give it to you,

It will be your advantage

[ half beat ]

It is the advantage of

[ half beat ]

Unlimited dance.

[ beat ]

It is

The Magic Paint Brush.

[ the speaker pauses for several beats ]

Recognize

That your hand and fore-arm

Are like a paint brush.

[ the speaker regards his own hand and arm bent at the elbow ]

This recognition is enough

To turn any person into a dancer

[ half beat ]

Of unlimited creativity and invention

Because it taps into

Your infinite mental sets of language and imagery

[ half beat ]

Which begin to flow

Out of you –

With an empty hand

You begin to paint

[ half beat ]

The words and the images that are inside of you

[ beat ]

Not

On the two dimensional surface of a canvas or a page

But on the infinite three dimensional surfaces of thin air.

[ beat ]

You

Will be dancing

[ half beat ]

The