What is a Body?

The Body is a collection of bodies. The body is an ecosystem that resides within a bigger eco system, and that is home to a number of ecosystems that are related to each other through a wise and well-planned communication system.

We know much about the body from hands-on research, but much of its workings is still mysterious to us. The body as a whole is an enabler of many acts and processes in the larger ecosystem within which it resides.

Dance is one such process.

The body can exercise health and sickness, life and decay within one cycle, it is prone to transformation and renewal.

The body, as a separate unit, is ephemeral. Yet, if looked at on the grand scheme of things, the body is eternal, since with its return to earth, it unites with the bigger ecosystem and allows for other processes to take place within it and around it.

The body is related to other bodies in the larger ecosystem and influences the processes that take place within the unique ecosystems it meets during its life cycle and beyond.

The body has two extensions which I can think of: voice and energy. Can you think of other extensions?  Or other definitions for what is a Body?