The dance or any kind of movement is not a denial. It is a hand extended across distance, across culture, across misunderstanding. It says, We can meet here. We can be different and still belong to one another. And when you feel that belonging, you realize happiness is not somewhere else.
People often ask me, sometimes softly, sometimes as if it is a riddle they must solve before the next snowstorm arrives, how to be happy in life. I understand the hunger inside that question. I have f...