If Your Dreams Were A Dance, This Is What They Would Look Like

If we’re lucky, we spend somewhere around a third of our lives asleep. “I just find it crazy,” dancer and choreographer Eliza Larson told The Huffington Post. “We have these complete other lives that we live while we’re sleeping and yet we can’t even remember them, or we remember them in different pieces.”  Thinking about sleep led the Portland, Oregon–based dancer to create “In Circadia” ― a five-section dance inspired by the stages of the sleep cycle. “I’m not a scientist or a sleep researcher,” Larson said. “But I was inspired by the structure of the sleep cycle ― the brain waves and the different characteristics of each stage ― and used that to create the work.”  When complete, the piece is expected to be nearly an hour in length. And each section will abstractly mirror the various sleep stages, from falling asleep to REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, Larson explained. Larson and five other dancers previewed one section of the piece last month at a performance in Portland. And the premiere of the full piece is being planned for February. Larson said she chose sleep as her inspiration for this project because sleep is something everyone does and everyone can relate to. “It’s so natural and we take it for granted until something goes wrong, like insomnia or narcolepsy,” she said. Typically Larson said she doesn’t have too much troub...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news