Manifesto 

by the local dance wizard.

This document is a collection of intentions, motivations and views belonging to the local dance wizard regarding dance. What he does with them is his own business. 

I am serious about my non-seriousness. It is light, I am light, and that is heavy.

My way of being is considerate and sincere, it is not contained by traditional professionalism, it is allowed to be stupid and ugly. There is weight in the light-hearted.

I am the local dance wizard. My magic is local to me.

Not ‘The’ as in the only. ‘The’ as in the one that lives in me. My magic is there whether it be visible or not. Magic is sensation. Magic is believing. 

Sensation outwards. Sensation elsewhere. My body. My whole body. Can be here and over there. I am a shapeshifter and I can feel all the space inbetween.

One of my powers is to extend and expand out from my physical body. It tingles and is as whole as my arm.

I am a liar and a thief. I am not lying to deceive. I find pretending powerful. I steal to get started.

I use generated fictions to convince and transform myself.

I am slow. Not the speed slow but the being slow. This is a container for presence and honesty. I host and become saturated with something else.

Slow is not just a speed. Slow is itself and not comparative. A being. I host and invite it in until I am fully saturated with itself.

Sound is important, not necessary. Sound is important because layers are important. Sound is important because I like it.

The space I am in is there for what it is. Sound is present to heighten and create atmosphere. It is an awareness tool and allows deeper focus, deeper magic, deeper belief. I add layers on layers on reality, I craft space.

There is complexity and depth in simplicity.

The complex is already alive because of one's history. Trust in the simple and allow the complex to happen.

Dances glides in and out of comprehensibility. Both from the inside and the outside.

In relation to being understood. Dance can just be dance and that is enough. 

I am a local dance wizard,

   And my magic is local to me.

   I am serious about my non-seriousness.

   It is light,

   I am light,

   And that is heavy.

My body.

   My whole body.

   Can be here and over there.

   And I feel all the space inbetween.

   It tingles and is as whole as my arm.

I am saturated with slow.

   Not the speed but the being.

   I do not lie to deceive,

   Pretending is powerful and my ability is whole all the time.