What is it about the relief that there might be an end to the COVID-19 confinement that would prompt me to dance?
It has always been at those moments of maximum anxiety, stress and confinement that I turned to dance.
For me, dance is a release, a liberation, a joy, self-medication, self-expression. It was more a solo event and men often told me I had a tendency to lead – not a compliment, I assumed. For me, dance was always about losing myself in a feeling of liberation and euphoria, where I would crumple down exhausted like some sort of mad, whirling Turkish dervish.
But there was also joy: my Jimmy Choos danced with me at my daughter’s wedding. I boogied to live music with my partner Ted at his pre-COVID birthday party, and there was that fabulous New Year’s Eve in Paris where we danced on the tables as the chef and other kitchen staff beat time on their copper pots.
I know this feeling and have felt this many times in my life, never more so than in Morocco while hiking through the Atlas Mountains when I danced with the Berbers. Our little band of five hikers stayed in a home provided by Abdullah, the “chef du village” of Azilal.They provided a feast for us, followed by dancing in traditional Berber garb. They loaned us glittery silken finery and placed heavy silver on my forehead. And then we were up, men and women dancing languidly in separate circles.
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