Dancing in a Burning Room

Ohmygosh. Seriously one of the best dances I’ve ever seen. I nearly started crying from the emotion that the dancers portrayed. And when it was over, I sat there for a second, trying to take it in, then I watched it another two times. It’s a very lyrical, sensual dance, but it’s beautiful.

Wade Robson (amazing, by the way) as choreographer, Ben Susak and Pam Chu as dancers. Kate and Joshua performed a shorter version of this on So You Think You Can Dance, but I think this version has a MUCH greater effect. There’s just something about it, how we can connect to such honest motions. The girl’s expression of being exposed, the man’s expression of need, meshed together into one brutal image of love. How much it can hurt, how hard you have to work for it, how much trust there needs to be to hold two complex people together… how it can hold in the end. Whether it’s because we’re too tired of fighting or because love really did survive, I don’t know. But wow, this dance was touching to the core.

The song’s called Dancing in a Burning Room by John Mayer. It fits perfectly; love- such a fiery emotion, yet we somehow willingly dance our way through.