The Dance of Leadership The Transitions Coach（舞蹈的领导过渡教练）.pdf

The Dance of Leadership This article is about leadership, change and high performance teams, written from my experience as a professional dancer, choreographer and artistic director. You will learn a lot about dance and wonder, what does this have to do with leadership and change? But reading this article is kind of like driving down a highway. You never know what you’re going to see around the bend, but you know if you stay on the road, you’ll get to where you want to go eventually. o thank you for staying on the road with me. What is dance? For me, dance is a metaphor for life. It is movement, expression, and celebration. It is emotional, the space between the words. As an art form, dance pre- dates music – for dance first appeared as a human attempt to reflect the passage of time. In its most primal form, dance is a partnership of body with rhythm, – the rhythm of the seasons, of planting and of harvest. It is a rhythmic way to ask for what was needed by the tribe : food, victory over enemies, the elements and a way to ask the gods for protection and good fortune. Pure dance directs energy for the purpose of expression. An idea, an emotion, a passage, a ritual. It is rhythm that connects to the very essence of life: the heartbeat and the breath. Our blood and our oxygen. Dance affirms that we are alive and a vital part of the vast cosmos. Movement has texture, weight, speed, force, direction, flow, levels and shape. Dance utilizes all these elements, blending force and flow, weight and speed in infinite combinations. Formations appear and disappear. People float in unworldly lightness. The space between the dancers comes alive as a partner in the moving sculpture. imple movement becomes dance when a movement or gesture is repeated. Repetition gives meaning