Dance: A Living Art Form
Published September 16, 2012 Sunday Gleaner “Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free," said Rumi, Persian poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Transcending boundaries, centuries fast forward, Monica Campbell McFarlane, artistic director of Movements Dance Company of Jamaica, is living the emotion to this creative form of expression, weaving the intricacies of dance as a living art form. She explained the various elements through the numerous productions that her dance company has done over the years, combining the eclectic mix of movements, lights and sound to etch an everlasting memory. MATRIX "There are so many elements that go into dancing - it is scientific, it can be a crossword puzzle, religious connotations ... . It is a matrix of culture," Campbell McFarlane said. According to her, as the first building block, pr...