Stillness -- feel for the stillness that exists behind the endless movements of mind -- thoughts, feelings and sensations.
Our lives are often meaninglessly overcomplicated simply to distract ourselves from the loneliness that exists within stillness.
Stillness, rather, is something that exists for and in us all.
Most great dancing exists in contrasts — small against large, fast against slow, stillness against motion — and for Ms. Molina such contrasts seem her daily bread.
Three couples dance against a quietly rippling backcloth and, out of these simple means, Van Manen manufactures a transcendent space that exists somewhere between abstraction and expression, between flying and falling, between motion and stillness.
MF: The new work exists in an interesting limbo between natural and artificial, of showing action and stillness, depicting an image that is universal, but also personal.
According to Karen Durbin of Elle, she "evokes Eli's radical apartness with an air of watchful caution and a contained stillness of body that not only belies her childish appearance ", and "In a performance devoid of sentimentality she perfectly captures the awful solitude of a creature who exists outside time".
Looking back, maybe the stillness I was seeking already existed in my life; it was the container in which my emotional life existed.
Since then the world that he dominated as a photographer — fashion, beauty, celebrity — has changed dramatically, leaving a stillness where his energetic ideas once existed.
Everything rested with him but it is at times such as these when the truly world-class players enter their own zones, in which focus and stillness are the only things that exist.
