“Remembering the eyes
Vision links past with future and communicates the present. (…) Physically, vision involves your eyes – their moment-by-moment orchestration. Seeing spills over into dancing and dance making, including the dominant role of vision in cuing the body. (…) Throughout, the behavior of your eyes affects whole body organization. Eyes reveal. Change your visual patterns, and your body cuing changes. Response to you is also affected. (…)
Seeing is a dialogue, and a dialogue with light. Eyes are the primary organs of seeing, gathering visual data for interpretation in the brain. Attention and intention are linked through the eyes.
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You see only a small portion of what’s present in the visual field. The retina lining the back of the eyeball is the first of several gateways for selecting visual data to be sent to the brain for processing. What you’ve seen before and what you value is prioritized – you see what you expect to see! The rod cells (registering black and white) and cone cells (registering color) embedded in the retina are responsible for the initial stage of this prioritization. For example, only one-thousandth of the data stimulating the rod cells is sent on for visual processing. To see freshly, you can practice looking for the unexpected, opening to unseen dimensions and expanding visual habits.
Vision is both the fastest and the slowest sense.
Survival pathways skip complex processing making vision the fastest sense. But it is also the slowest sense. Interpretation of seeing is in the visual cortex. As much as 50 percent of the brain is involved in visual processing, reflecting the evolutionary importance of seeing in humans.
Sensory input about touch, movement, smell, taste, and sound all combine with visual data midway in the brain (in the thalamus), where it is scanned for survival cues and merged with past emotional memory before interpretation.
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The longer you look at something attentively, the more detailed associations are evoked in the lobes of the cortex, and larger patterns are revealed. Sometimes repeated viewings help. Sustained concentration is valuable for both the dancer and the viewer (for both the dancers_viewers : ) ).
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Eyes give news of inner states of attention and outer response.
(...)
You see only a small portion of what’s present in the visual field. The retina lining the back of the eyeball is the first of several gateways for selecting visual data to be sent to the brain for processing. What you’ve seen before and what you value is prioritized – you see what you expect to see! The rod cells (registering black and white) and cone cells (registering color) embedded in the retina are responsible for the initial stage of this prioritization. For example, only one-thousandth of the data stimulating the rod cells is sent on for visual processing. To see freshly, you can practice looking for the unexpected, opening to unseen dimensions and expanding visual habits.
Vision is both the fastest and the slowest sense.
Survival pathways skip complex processing making vision the fastest sense. But it is also the slowest sense. Interpretation of seeing is in the visual cortex. As much as 50 percent of the brain is involved in visual processing, reflecting the evolutionary importance of seeing in humans.
Sensory input about touch, movement, smell, taste, and sound all combine with visual data midway in the brain (in the thalamus), where it is scanned for survival cues and merged with past emotional memory before interpretation.
(...)
The longer you look at something attentively, the more detailed associations are evoked in the lobes of the cortex, and larger patterns are revealed. Sometimes repeated viewings help. Sustained concentration is valuable for both the dancer and the viewer (for both the dancers_viewers : ) ).
(...)
Eyes give news of inner states of attention and outer response.
(...)
Peripheral vision opens to the full visual field, and takes your awareness down toward gravity – locating and orienting you in place (locating and orienting you in a shared space).
(while dancing you can also experience inward focus on thoughts or feelings)
Seeing and being seen requires practice.“
(while dancing you can also experience inward focus on thoughts or feelings)
Seeing and being seen requires practice.“
Andrea Olsen with Caryn McHose
in "The Place of Dance: A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making"
1st edition 30th January 2014, Wesleyan University Press
p. 145-148
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