Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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As we listen to the sounds of our environ- mentfrom the laughter outside our dorm win- dows, to the cheers of the crowd at the football games, to the omnipresent bells of U.H., to the screeching tires and horns on The Hill and in the cityour bodies incorporate these sounds into themselves and begin to wave to an unseen music. Involuntarily we tap our feet and move our hands as the silent tempos of daily living be- come orchestrated into motion. We sway and weave and bob like puppets moved by invisible strings until our entire bodies are choreo- graphed into a typical, yet atypical, wondrous dance. As we dance in this tumultuous silence, we sense and understand a new joyous mean- ing in the trivialities of our environment. Brown Street and Meeting Street become our Rose- lands just as Waterman and Thayer are the stages for our archetypal danses macabres. While we dance, we sing, and in our jazz ballets we begin to discover yearnings for a new art which will be more than a reflection of real life.