Dealing with weirdness. Thoughts after a workshop

"Feeling good is not a special quality," my Butoh dance teacher Anna Barth explained many years ago. One could have considered her cynical, but instead, my heart opened up. Like a wise temptation, the sentence expressed what one senses but searches for in vain when Instagram images elevate comfort to a desirable standard as a matter of course. This sentence opened up a space that welcomed a variety of moods and feelings. The goal was no longer to lead a happy life, but a rich one. When dancing, this manifested itself in the fact that I shamelessly no longer...