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30+, ADHD/autistic neuroqueer. Married to @strongeststars. She/they. ENFP-A. Miss Ester Duanda on Tales Of the Dew Drop @teatrpg

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Anish Moonka
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka·
When a computer tracks the Indian classical dancer in this video, it picks up perfect circles, triangles, and curves in every movement. There are exactly 108 of them. All 108 were written into a manual over 2,000 years ago. That manual is the Natya Shastra. Six thousand verses, written somewhere around 200 BCE. It describes 108 specific dance movements for Bharatanatyam, one of the oldest dance forms in India. Each movement spells out three things: where your hands go, what angle your body holds, and the exact path your legs trace. Roughly 150 step combinations grow out of those 108 base movements. A trained dancer spends years learning 70 to 80 of them. Watch the dancer's legs in the video. The bent-knee squat creates a diamond shape. Palms together make a triangle. When researchers plotted these positions in three dimensions this year, they found the moving body carves out twisted spirals and bowl-shaped curves, the kind of shapes you see in an engineering textbook, not a dance studio. Every limb holds a specific angle and moves a measured distance. The rhythm is math too. A 7-beat song gets filled with dance steps of 3 and 4. Scale that to 35 beats and the groups of 3 and 4 repeat five times. Choreographers work out these splits in their heads while performing live. All 108 movements are also carved into the stone walls of a 12th-century temple in Tamil Nadu called Chidambaram, many panels still carrying the original Sanskrit description next to them. A choreography textbook in granite, still legible after 900 years. A 2013 study put 25 people on a walkway rigged with motion-capture cameras. Every human stride has two parts: when your foot is on the ground and when it swings forward. The ratio between those two parts came out to 1.620. The golden ratio is 1.618. Your foot lifts off at 61.8% of every step you take, and it has done this your entire life. A Bharatanatyam dancer takes that same built-in proportion and amplifies it across 108 movements, each one tracing shapes that were set down in writing over 2,000 years before the tracking software in this video existed.
Massimo@Rainmaker1973

Sacred Geometry in dance forms

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LoLNothingMatters
LoLNothingMatters@DastDn·
I was really quite looking forward to resuming my normal routine of not paying attention to Hungary, once Orban got ousted. But the new guy is currently running a marathon of doxxing every asshole who's ever got Putin's money laundered through Budapest.
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Dr. Allison Wiltz
Dr. Allison Wiltz@queenie4rmnola·
Thousands of white people participated. It’s like Ida B Well said, “Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.”
Equal Justice Initiative@eji_org

On this day in 1903, several thousand white people lynched a Black man and attacked Black neighborhoods in Joplin, Missouri, burning homes and forcing every Black person to flee the city. calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

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Ted Cutezynski
Ted Cutezynski@shrugdeaIer·
So burning down a warehouse where no one is hurt is “violence,” but a system that sees approximately six unhoused people die everyday in LA County alone isn’t. Got it.
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Brian Allen
Brian Allen@allenanalysis·
BREAKING: The Senate just voted 52-47 to let Trump bomb Iran without Congressional approval. The Founders gave war powers to Congress for one reason: To make sure no single man could start a war alone. That protection just died in the Senate.
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sen@sugatradamus·
“what is the real secret of BTS’ success” 🐱 they are just really funny. it’s fun to be around them and since we’ve gone through hell and high water together. i think of them as family. i’m sure that’s part of our success is that we share such a strong bond plus, everyone is so talented. i think that’s why we’re able to trust each other on this journey together.
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ari ᥫ᭡@bratzmin_7·
This was the whole point
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