MRI Moves

My MR experience today inspired me to choreograph an MRI dance.

Set to the electronic pings, rings, and zings of the cocoon like machine, my dance begins with a darkened stage.

A spotlight falls on each of 3 bundled figures, lying a few feet apart.

As the scene brightens, the first dancer raises his right leg in an arc to the center of his body and over past the right.

The one in the middle sheds her wrapping and pulls up onto her toes, then flat on her heel. She turns to face the last supine figure.

He also unwraps and then rolls to his left. Cat stretch to downward dog and up slowly, sensuously allowing each vertebrae to wriggle to standing.

When all three are standing, they march in a circle that turns into a conga.

The electro-pop of the MRI sets a rhythm for their movement throughout.

Relaxing, the light follows them as they dance off.

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