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dance like no one's watching
Wednesday, 14 October 2009 13:23Today was the Noon Service led by Faith for All at HDS. As head of that this year, that meant I got to plan the liturgy and ended up doing a dance to "See Me" from Bare: A Pop Opera (lyrics mp3 on amazon). After first I was completely gungho about this, but then as emotional stuff started to creep up on me, I just didn't have the time to choreograph it as well as i'd like and people weren't responding to my requests for help in choreography. And then after the weekend, I was really tempted to pull out and not go forth with the dance.
At the last minute I decided to stick with it. I'd mailed the letter to my parents and this was sort of the personal aspect of coming out. The song is so wrought with emotion for me - it's hard for me not to cry when I hear it - and dancing was, in a way, part of the healing process. There was excellent feedback on it too. A woman came up to me afterward and said that I managed to convey the experience of her son coming out to her. That was about the best response I could ask for. The feedback was great, and it felt good to dance. I have to start going to the weekly dance stuff on Tuesdays at HDS. I need that in my life.
A few people commented that the dance served the place of the sermon and perhaps it did in a way. It was certainly personal. This of course led to a friend challenging me to do a dance for the Billings Preaching competition at HDS. We'll see. It's a challenge to shake up the Billings preaching competition, which I tried to do last year with preaching on the relevance of Christ's erections in Augustine.
So, yes, Happy Coming Out Week, People. In the words of a certain Admiral - Damn the Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead.
At the last minute I decided to stick with it. I'd mailed the letter to my parents and this was sort of the personal aspect of coming out. The song is so wrought with emotion for me - it's hard for me not to cry when I hear it - and dancing was, in a way, part of the healing process. There was excellent feedback on it too. A woman came up to me afterward and said that I managed to convey the experience of her son coming out to her. That was about the best response I could ask for. The feedback was great, and it felt good to dance. I have to start going to the weekly dance stuff on Tuesdays at HDS. I need that in my life.
A few people commented that the dance served the place of the sermon and perhaps it did in a way. It was certainly personal. This of course led to a friend challenging me to do a dance for the Billings Preaching competition at HDS. We'll see. It's a challenge to shake up the Billings preaching competition, which I tried to do last year with preaching on the relevance of Christ's erections in Augustine.
So, yes, Happy Coming Out Week, People. In the words of a certain Admiral - Damn the Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead.
