Dance is life

First off, it was really hard for me to find something that I could relate to that would not completely bore me to death.  I finally found a speech.  Now, my next problem was having no motivation to actually read and listen to it.  I chose the speech I wanted Wednesday night and kept putting it off because I knew that I had no interest in the speech.  When you know you are not going to like something or have no interest in the subject, sometimes it can be really hard to get the motivation to start it.

The “this is believe” speech I found is called “Dance is Life” by an African American male in the age group thirty to fifty.  This man, Fred D’Aguiar, is also a poet, but he loves dance.  He believes “dance can be a source for peace, if we all join in and move to the global groove.”

He starts off by saying “I believe in dance.  Dance as magic, dance as cure and dance as a metaphor for life.”  I thought this was a great way to start the speech off.  There was the word “metaphor” that we had used in class.  For this speech, he just bluntly tells you how he is using dance as a metaphor.  He goes on and tells you his history with dance and he also tells you how dance connects the body and mind.  He grew up around a lot of dancing.  Fred has danced to many different types of music from reggae to calypso to the boogie- woogie blues.  He mentioned that though dancing his body and mind unified.

He believes dance is magic because he met his woman through dancing.  “I knew from our movements of pure Euclidean geometry that she would be mine.”  He believes dance is a cure because he was once a psychiatric nurse in London, England and there was a sick woman who had danced her way from neurosis to happiness in a few weeks of aerobic bliss.

I think he did a really good job with blending in his history with how he feels about dancing and then connecting it all to the population and global issues.