OBSERVATION IN ACTION

The material existence of the universe can be seen as an improvised performance: an event that has not yet finished. When we episodically exercise our free will to improvise, reflect, organize and perform with expressive insight, we are partaking in the improvised performance that is the universe. Philosophically speaking, being, becoming and performance are the norms. By this I mean that just being alive, existing, living, playing, working, and so on, already constitute the universe's dance. This dance continues manifesting a flow of change or living flux that facilitates life itself. Being born, existing and dying are all part of a performed event, which started with the Big Bang, evolved into stars, the incubators for the more complex elements, and ultimately resulting in our existence and becoming. These are my initial assumptions when conceptualizing the significance of expressive movement when we work, play, dance and act.

We may be uncertain of the ultimate truths of the universe but we desire to find meaning through research, worship and improvisation as ways to find repeating patterns in the unknown. We reflect on our observations and understandings of the material universe by telling stories that explain the meaning of our present state regarding being, becoming and performance. However, how we understand our observations depends on collective models of perception that are constantly, in a transcultural sense, changing. These collective models reflect an approximate understanding of patterns in our perceived out- there- ness.