The Goddess of Practical Inspiration is smiling on Ed Groff. To the refrains of a wailing chanteuse or a beat of African drums, pulsating bodies discover the art of choreographed science under the watch of the University of Utah modern dance professor. My belief is that movement training isn't perceived as a needed discipline. Yet so much of our lives relies on movement.
Technique is the teasing apart of the ingredients of movement.
The perfection of technique is the modern-day legacy of Techne, the mythological goddess. She was the heavenly inspiration of artists and scientists in classical Greece. Through her, the Greeks believed the arts and sciences were celestially connected to convey to mortals how the world works. Even today, many scholars have converted to the academic posture that the two seemingly distant disciplines are bound by the thrill of exposing the world as it was never seen before. The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in the act of creation itself.