IT USTA BE…#2
FUN dancing on a crowded dance floor. In fact, being a dancer at heart, as well as an actor and author, partner dancing was something for which I lived. A lifelong devotion, every-other-day exercise in the studio, interspersed with weekly social dancing and the total release of rarer performances or competitions. Yep, usta is the right word, indeed.
For the past two years, there has been no social, performance or competitive dance without the risk of death by COVID. “Real” partner dancing, at least the way I dance, is athletic, and that elevates the pastime to that of a sport, where sweating and panting, air transmission is not only possible, but if COVID’s present, likely, the only things between pleasure and death being immunization (how good it this given COVID-omicron?) and a mask (which is better at protecting others from me than me from them). What’s sustained me during the New Plague has been our studio. Being the only two on the floor during our time, wearing masks because of the proximity of the studio to a muscle builder gym, I feel relatively free to drop my reservations and dance. But only relatively so. I miss the other dancers and the crowds of viewers.
I tried ZOOM-style performances and competitions, but the technology, while there, isn’t yet fully developed, making them more of a technology experiment than a dance. As COVID continues, it will eventually harold a revolution in “distance” dance, where dancers will dance in their studios, and viewers will be treated to a holographically reconstructed dance floor with the various couples appearing as if they are there, dancing with and against each other. I’ve no doubt of this. Check out my latest book, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor — https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859 — where I describe a similar future for education.
The bottomline, to me, is that there needs to be an entire rethink of society in which the emphasis shifts from “crowd sales” to “individual services” like my holographic dance event. This is a challenge worthy of ailing business, Silicon Valley and movie industries. And, as people begin to leave this planet, it will prove exponentially more important to experience social gatherings with individual distancing, without the need for mass immunization, masks or social distancing. Intrigued? Think for a moment about “going out” to your favorite restaurant, where, eating preprepared gourmet food at home, you are surrounded by sights and sounds corresponding to the food cultures in virtual reality. For example, eating Egyptian cuisine in a virtual reality restaurant at the foot of the pyramids, looking forward to a somatic evening under the desert stars, all from the safety of your home. It’s not so hard to imagine, is it?
Video Book Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je6CC...
THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor is an Amazon genre bestseller available in printer, digital and audiobook formats, purchased by K. Simmons Production for manga, animation and cinematic treatment.
For the past two years, there has been no social, performance or competitive dance without the risk of death by COVID. “Real” partner dancing, at least the way I dance, is athletic, and that elevates the pastime to that of a sport, where sweating and panting, air transmission is not only possible, but if COVID’s present, likely, the only things between pleasure and death being immunization (how good it this given COVID-omicron?) and a mask (which is better at protecting others from me than me from them). What’s sustained me during the New Plague has been our studio. Being the only two on the floor during our time, wearing masks because of the proximity of the studio to a muscle builder gym, I feel relatively free to drop my reservations and dance. But only relatively so. I miss the other dancers and the crowds of viewers.
I tried ZOOM-style performances and competitions, but the technology, while there, isn’t yet fully developed, making them more of a technology experiment than a dance. As COVID continues, it will eventually harold a revolution in “distance” dance, where dancers will dance in their studios, and viewers will be treated to a holographically reconstructed dance floor with the various couples appearing as if they are there, dancing with and against each other. I’ve no doubt of this. Check out my latest book, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor — https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859 — where I describe a similar future for education.
The bottomline, to me, is that there needs to be an entire rethink of society in which the emphasis shifts from “crowd sales” to “individual services” like my holographic dance event. This is a challenge worthy of ailing business, Silicon Valley and movie industries. And, as people begin to leave this planet, it will prove exponentially more important to experience social gatherings with individual distancing, without the need for mass immunization, masks or social distancing. Intrigued? Think for a moment about “going out” to your favorite restaurant, where, eating preprepared gourmet food at home, you are surrounded by sights and sounds corresponding to the food cultures in virtual reality. For example, eating Egyptian cuisine in a virtual reality restaurant at the foot of the pyramids, looking forward to a somatic evening under the desert stars, all from the safety of your home. It’s not so hard to imagine, is it?
Video Book Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je6CC...
THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor is an Amazon genre bestseller available in printer, digital and audiobook formats, purchased by K. Simmons Production for manga, animation and cinematic treatment.
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