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Walking*. "When you walk you keep one foot on the ground, always. Two feet off the ground and you are jumping. With one foot on the ground you can move in three directions: forward, backward, sideways. If you move sideways in the "wrong" direction, you move across. That's walking: one foot at a time.
Now take a sidewalk and add walking: you are moving quickly, trying to get through the crowd to catch the bus. You have two blocks to navigate, and the crowd makes it difficult. You weave through the people, taking bigger and smaller steps, looking for holes and then filling them, inhabiting them momentarily before they close. Hopefully no child, friend or lover is lagging behind: sidewalk holes are rarely big enough for two people. And yet walking "alone" does not exist. Walking in_with the world: the only kind of walking.
From walking to relational movement is no big leap: it's already what you do. Except you may not have noticed because you were too busy trying to "get through" the crowd. (Relational movement means moving the relation). The most straightforward way to conceive relational movement is side by side, or face to face (dancing tango). Walking with a lover, with a child, with a group of friends. 
Walking relationally: when you walk into the hole-space, you walk-with. 
(Intensity of movement can only be felt through the in-between - the interval - created by the movement-with). Walking-with is more than taking a step, it is creating movement. Dancing together.
Creating movement is initiating a dance." Grace becoming dance*.


by Erin Manning
in "Relationscapes"

*by Catarina