Balance

What is balance?

Is balance a place, a state of being, an energy, a suspension? Is it still or moving?
How does one create balance?

Opposition is physically understood in the practice of dance. The dancer must press energy down into the floor in order to create a supported rise. The action of down creates the up. This opposition is in all movement tasks. The tendu must drive down through the floor to lengthen out and consequently upward to a battement. The extent of the toe is opposed with an anchored pelvis. As well, the working leg drives down to connect, while the standing leg lengthens upward to design. The action simultaneously executed. The torso, the supported action of pressing against the spine in a horizontal manner, releases the length of the spine vertically. The extent of the port de bras is opposed with an anchored shoulder line. The list is endless.

I would define balance as that effort that understands a perimeter and creates freedom within. The outline of restrictions, the rules, the definition of boundaries opposed with boundless creative formation, information, point of view.

Balance is a shape that has texture and suspension through expression of energy.
Opposition is Balance.