What Choreography Can Teach Us About Writing

Choreography as Poem

Today I wrote a new poem. Only not with words, but with my body.

This poem is set to music, a slow, snake-like song called “The Sensual Chifti” which I fell in love with a few weeks ago upon stumbling across it on iTunes. My complete rendition comprises two minutes, thirty-eight seconds — not an epic by any means, but an average length, with…