Many trees let light flow through, so their young can grow. Shade trees grow a dense canopy that blocks most light from the undergrowth. Sometimes just a little bit of light (日) leaks through (漏れ) the trees (木) and creates a forest discotheque:
木漏れ日: komorebi
It’s 1979. In nightclubs in the big cities of the U.S. and Europe, people are dancing to disco songs, sung by black women for queer audiences, discovering themselves along the way.
glitter . sweat . drag . desire
pulsing . rhythm . expression
sex . multifariousness
Above them the disco ball spins, reflecting their colours back at them, creating unity in diversity, as “everyone sparkled for a moment.”
– D.A. Powell
According to Hindu scriptures, the whole world is dancing, as Nataraja dances it into being
creating . preserving . destroying . transforming
planets circle stars
Trees sway in the wind.
“every subatomic particle … is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction.”
– Fritjof Capra
Some people hate it when others dance.
July 12, 1979, Comiskey Park, Chicago
Disco Demolition Night
June 12, 2016, Nightclub Pulse, Orlando
49 people murdered
dancing emerges from ordinary life
when we meet on a busy street
and twirl around each other
humans will always dance
Gloria Gaynor sings: “I will survive!“
cherish the light that leaks through