11.13.11 : 3 - 1 : 1 out of 4 = still much to learn.

a couple days ago I wrote about emptiness. 

it's a tricky thing:

it's always (t)here, if we allow it to be,
but it can't be -done- on command;
it can be summoned, perhaps, but it may not heed our invitation.
and yet it's there, lingering, inside the space, inside of the performing body, and outside. 

when we let it be, and really listen to it, and really re-act to it (often without doing anything at all), it fills itself with beauty.

but when we rush it, when we -do- it, when we actively look for it, then it isn't emptiness at all, and it smells stale, lifeless. 

so what to do?
how do you prepare to open and receive it, how do you let itself be full and empty at once, so that what you are, do and give (your partners, the audience) may become one and the same?


this
search-without-searching is what keeps me going. 


it's all there already.