How can we define the quality of a movement?

What does it take to enhance your movement quality? 

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Practice makes perfect? A movement can be repeated many times but the quality might still not be refined.

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Good technique? Applying good technical guidance is helpful but not enough. 

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Heart? bringing the soul, the love for what you do. Essential. 

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Meaningful? The movement communicates a message, talks and connects to a deep value. 

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Mindful? Slowing down, follow the movement with attentive awareness.

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Right amount of relaxation and tension? A balance between engagement and observation, power and softness.

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Freedom? A movement absorbed in its expressive gesture, not concerned by the outcome or approbation.

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Movement that involves the whole body mind?

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A movement that replaces the wandering thought of the mind.

It becomes the language the words fail to convey. 

It becomes the bridge between the formless and the form. A transition. A space in between. A void that has a visual potency and expressivity to convey the language of the heart.

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Impossible to repeat and copy in the exact same way. It appears now and disappears as it came. Nothing happened. It has a rippling effect though incomprehensible to the mind. 

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A movement with quality defies space and time. Who witnesses it? Maybe it is destined to the trees, the stars, the sea, a huge crowd, a loved one, an unknown soul, a stone or a clueless wall. 

To whom are you moving for and why?