Painting by Leeorah Hursky www.leeorah.com

Elemental Forró

[a short story]


The priestess looked at her portal bereft of vital energy and asked all goddesses and gods for a solution.
The last of her Lunar Dancers had departed back to Brazil the month before, to be back to her family; and she was left alone in this distant land.
The priestess was in charge of a secret that protected and energised the world and it was failing, after years of her mystics’ isolation due to the pandemic.
That night, a dream sent her the solution. So simple, so brilliant, and better, she wouldn’t need to initiate anyone. No one would need to know, all she would need to do would be to be present and take her own energy, to recharge the portal.
The dream wouldn’t have been sent to her if the idea wouldn’t have been viable. She did a search online and was quickly rewarded! After years of false stats and unstable attempts, Sydney finally had consistent weekly Forró dancing social encounters.
It was a full moon and her connection with divine energy started pulsating the instant that the song hit her chest while she was still climbing the stairs to the venue. She looked to the medallion on her chest and it sported a black-matted colour.
The “suffering” imbued into the music of the motherland squeezed her chest and dragged her upstairs.

Being a new face on the dance floor, she wasn’t asked to dance straight away. She inhaled deeply and looked at the shadows, the couples breathing each other, bathed in colourful lights.
She put her water bottle filled with water from the Eternal Spring and stood by the circle of people around the space. If people could only imagine the value of that water bottle!
First she looked at the wall. If people looked to where she was facing, they would only see her shadow, as that of a normal woman.
Herself, however, saw the shadow of a dragon, above that of her own shadow, double of her size, spread wings, fiery eyes, even inside the reflexion, and with an expression of someone who promises not to be contained.
The Dragon-King, as she called him, was an ancestral spirit who shared her earthly habitation. At this moment, he kept an expression of naughtiness, desire, thirst.
‘Okay my King, let’s burn this dance floor.’ The priestess told him telepathically.
The Dragon incorporated his wings into her arms, melting himself into her body and letting the excess energy flow into the floor, irradiating the whole environment. The priestess looked to the centre of the venue and followed the streaks of green light, saw that they entered through the soles of the feet of the other dancers, she readied herself to dance.

The next music started and the dancers accelerated, enlivened, a great spell spread around. As if an alignment of the planets had happened.
The first who asked her to dance was like air; with him, her feet barely touched the floor, she felt as if she was walking on clouds. The steps were small and light, a tiny samba, a happiness reminiscent of Brazilian Popular Music style, sort of a calm joy.
He would hold her in breaks of the song and used each wisp of movement. He smiled at her when she reflected his subtle leadership and whims. His dance a delight.
At the end of that first encounter of elements, the medallion was already reflecting an iridescent blue, as clouds in a hurricane.

Like the songs of Gaia, her second partner made her feel earthbound. She could dance with him with closed eyes almost all the time. His dance wasn’t full of twirls, with only a few turns and full of style, it had plenty of body movements. He kept her enchanted, connected with the energy of the centre of the world, of Earth. She felt the vibration coming from the centre of the planet, bearing from the soil, charging through her core until the taste of this energy came to her palate.
She knew what he was going to do at the moment he decided to do it. Never a missed a step. They were like trees dancing under a tempest under strong winds.
At the end of the song, the world rejuvenated. Her medallion flashed in colours of gold and bronze, like Uluru, the rock in the centre of Australia.

When the next dancer approached, her Dragon-King roared in her mind. Fire. Danger. As a child of the water, fire was the element that risked extinguishing her in flames. It was also the one with the highest capacity to recharge the portal’s energies. It was impossible to create a full recharge without all four elements.
Furthermore, there was no way to create a true exchange of energies with barriers, caution, trying to keep oneself safe. The only way was to dance with vulnerability, throwing all fears to the wind and jumping into the abyss.
These dancers, the Universe had chosen and sent them. Her Dragon-King had attracted them, with perfect dance chemistry. Ideal partners to reactivate her portal.
There’s a great variation of how sensual a dance can be. This dancer, the Fire dancer, made the dance become a seduction. A vertical act better practiced on the horizontal. At first he tested the waters, and as he felt that she inclined forward instead of backwards; that when he squeezed her knees between his, she squeezed his between hers, his eyes sparkled.
She didn’t miss a turn, didn’t refuse a hand on the waist, followed all tracings; he smiled with the corner of his mouth, eyes shinning. He locked her hand behind her body and touched the palm of her hand lightly with the tip of his fingers, the naughty man.
After a turn, he left his thumb slide above the collar of her dress, to touch the back of her neck and at the moment she felt the contact the energy between them exploded inside. She felt him against her womb.
He was obliged to lead a series of turns, creating some distance between the two bodies, before finishing, when more in control, cheek to cheek, at the last beat of the song.
She felt the medallion burning on her chest between them. Saw it was read as ember when she went to get some water from the Spring, the only balm capable of making her keep her aplomb. To quench the fire that was consuming her.
She required some songs to wait for the last element until she was recovered and ready for it. Her Dragon-King was shouting on her mind that he wanted more. More! MORE!

She turned her back to the circle of crazied dancers, trying to direct some air inside her clothes from a nearby fan, to see if she could get some equilibrium.
The fate of the world in her hands and she was falling apart because of a dance… And then she remembered that it was the amount of channeled energy that was the issue, not two people, not an earthbound problem. She was asking too much of herself really. With each dance, the energy got potentiated in relation to the previous one.
Her heart started to thump harder with apprehension and anticipation of the dance that was approaching. Her own element of birth: Water. The one who vibrated all elements of her body.
She knew who would be the dancer. She had seen him the moment she had entered the place. When he came to her with his eyes the colour of oceans, extended his hand and held her, it was as falling right into mother Iemanjá’s arms.

The swing of the sea, that, took her legs out of her, and gave her gills. She felt like a mermaid.
The dancer anchored to the water element plunged her in his arms and took her to his world, an underwater world, fluid, with lava veins, with a submerged vulcano.
This dance was glided through the floor, with body and soul waves, in total harmony with the song. His movements being enhanced and for some moments locking her hand under his, over his heart. She felt his heartbeat on the palm of her hand, as her face rested against his.
At another turn, as by magic, her hand ended on his naked neck, hot, wet with sweat. Their eyes met for an instant and got lost in a distant galaxy. She melted on the inside, in a liquid world she didn’t know where hers started and his ended.
Her feet followed his, both following the song until the last beat. When they were finished, they were breathing in synchronism. She felt her medallion was in perfect equilibrium, and the Portal was energised for one more cycle. Mission accomplished.
The Dragon-King rested silently.

She knew she should thank him for the dance as she had done with all the other dancers, to thank and close the experience, framing it by what it was: just a beautiful moment in the world, a perfect conversation, of synchronised energies, a divine gift, in the past.
But this time… she walked away, lost in high seas…

[#forromates / #sydneyforrodance]

[Image: Painting by Leeorah Hursky / http://www.leeorah.com]

Forró dos Quatro Elementos

[um conto]


A sacerdotiza olhou para seu portal vazio de energia e pediu às Deusas e Deuses uma solução.
A última de suas Dançarinas da Lua havia retornado ao Brasil no mês anterior para estar perto da família e ela ficara sozinha, na terra distante, encarregada de um segredo que energizava o mundo mas que estava falhando. Um portal que se encontrava fosco depois de anos de isolamento de suas sacerdotizas pela pandemia.
Naquela noite, a feiticeira teve um sonho que enviou-lhe uma solução brilhante, tão simples, e o melhor de tudo, não precisaria iniciar ninguém. Nenhum envolvido no feitiço precisaria nem ficar sabendo, tudo que ela precisava fazer para reabastecer o portal era estar presente, levar sua própria energia.
O sonho não teria lhe sido enviado se a solução não fosse viável. Ela fez uma pesquisa online e foi recompensada! Sua alegria ao ver que depois de anos de tentativas, de idas e vindas, de começos e paradas, encontros sociais para dançar Forró tinham tornado-se consistentes e semanais em Sydney.
Era uma noite de lua cheia e sua conexão com a energia divina começou a pulsar no momento que a música bateu em seu peito ainda na base da escada do local onde o encontro se realizaria. Ela olhou para o medalhão no seu peito, e por enquanto, ele refletia a cor preta fosca.
A sofrência da música da Terra-Mãe apertou seu âmago e puxou-a escada acima.

Sendo uma nova personagem no salão, ela não foi convidada imediatamente para dançar. Ela inspirou profundamente olhando os casais se respirando na penumbra, com as luzes que piscavam em várias cores.
Colocou sua garrafa de água da Fonte Eterna por perto e ficou no círculo. Se as pessoas imaginassem o valor daquela garrafa de água!
Primeiro olhou para a parede. Achou engraçado que se alguém olhasse para sua sombra só veriam seu contorno, uma mulher como qualquer outra.
Ela entretanto, via, acima de sua sombra, a a silhueta de um dragão, o dobro de seu tamanho, soltando vapor e pequenas chamas pelas ventas, com asas abertas, olhos incendiados, mesmo na sombra da parede, e cuja expressão era de quem promete não se conter.
O Dragão-Rei, como lhe chamava, era um espírito ancestral que co-habitava sua habitação terrena, e nesse momento mantinha uma expressão de safadeza, desejo, sedenta.
‘Okay meu Rei, vamos incendiar esse salão.’ Disse-lhe a sacerdotiza telepaticamente.
O Dragão então incorporou suas asas nos braços dela, derretendo para dentro de seu corpo e liberando o excesso de energia pelo piso, irradiando por todo o ambiente. A sacerdotiza se virou para o centro do salão, seguindo os raios de luz verde que entravam pelas solas dos pés dos dançarinos, e se preparou para dançar.

A próxima música começou e os dançarinos se aceleram, se animaram, um grande feitiço se espalhou. Como um alinhamento dos planetas.
O primeiro que lhe tirou para dançar era como ar, com ele, seus pés mal tocaram o chão, a sacerdotiza sentia que caminhava nas nuvens, passos pequenos e leves, um sambar pequeno, uma alegria com estilo música popular brasileira, suave mas de alegria calma.
Ele lhe segurava em paradas da música e aproveitava cada sopro de movimento. Lhe sorria quando ela refletia a liderança dele e entendia seus caprichos sutis. A dança dele, um deleite.
Ao fim daquele primeiro encontro de elementos o medalhão já refletia um azul furtacor, como nuvens em um furacão.


Como os cantos de Gaia, o seu segundo parceiro fez com que se sentisse aterrada, pode dançar com ele de olhos fechados quase que todo o tempo. Sua dança não foi de estrepolias. Com poucos giros, e cheio de estilo, movimentos de corpo, a manteve encantada, conectada com a energia central do mundo, da Terra. Ela sentia a vibração vindo do centro do planeta entrando pelo piso correndo por seu centro até o gosto dessa energia no céu de sua boca.
Sabia o que ele ia fazer no momento que ele decidia o movimento. Nunca um passo em falso. Foram como árvores ao vento, dançando com a tempestade. Ao fim da música o mundo rejuvenesceu. Seu medalhão brilhou em cores de ouro e bronze, como Uluru, a pedra do centro da Austrália.


Quando o próximo dançarino se aproximou, o Dragão-Rei de dentro dela rugiu em sua mente. Fogo. Perigo. Como criança da água, era sempre o elemento que ameaçava extingui-la em chamas. Mas era também o que tinha a maior capacidade de recarregar as energias de seu portal, e não há como faze-lo sem a conexão com todos os quatro elementos.
Além disso, não havia como criar uma verdadeira troca de energias com cautela e barreiras, tentando se manter segura. A única maneira de dançar vulneravelmente, é lançando os medos ao vento e se lançando ao abismo. Esses dançarinos, o Universo lhe havia escolhido e enviado, seu Dragão-Rei os havia atraído, com química perfeita de dança. Parceiros ideais para reativar seu portal.
Há uma grande variação de o quanto a dança pode ser sensual, esse dançarino, o do fogo, fez a dança virar uma arte de sedução, um ato vertical melhor praticado na horizontal. A princípio testou as águas, e à medida que percebeu que ao invés de inclinar para trás, sua parceira se inclinou para frente; de que quando ele prendeu seu joelho entre os dele, ela prendeu o dele entre os dela, seus olhos faiscaram.
Não teve giro que ela perdeu, mão na cintura que ela recusou, traceio que ela não seguiu; ele sorriu de canto de boca, olhos brilhando; e prendeu a mão dela atrás de seu corpo tocando a palma de sua mão levemente com a ponta dos dedos dele, o safado.
Depois de um giro, ele deixou seu dedão escorregar para cima do colarinho do vestido dela, para tocar a base da sua nuca e no momento que ela sentiu o contato a energia dos dois explodiu por dentro. Ela o sentiu contra seu ventre.
Ele se viu obrigado a liderar uma série de giros, criando certa distância entre os dois corpos, antes de terminar, quando recuperou um pouco o controle, rosto contra rosto, na última batida da música.
Ela sentiu o medalhão queimando no peito entre os dois, e viu que estava vermelho como brasa quando foi tomar água da Fonte, o único bálsamo capaz de fazê-la manter a compostura, e apagar o incêndio que lhe consumia.
Precisou esperar algumas músicas pelo último elemento até poder se recuperar. Seu Dragão-Rei gritando-lhe internamente que queria mais. Mais! MAIS!


Ela virou-se de costas para o círculo de dançarinos enlouquecidos, colocando ar dentro da roupa, num ventilador, para ver se conseguia se equilibrar novamente.
O destino do mundo em suas mãos e ela estava se desfazendo por causa de uma dança… Mas ela lembrou-se de que o problema era a quantidade de energia canalizada, não duas pessoas, não era um problema carnal, era que estava realmente pedindo muito de seu ser encarnado. A cada dança, a energia se potencializava em relação à dança anterior.
Seu coração começou a bater de medo e antecipação pela dança que se aproximava. Seu elemento de nascença: Água. Aquele que vibrava com todas as moléculas de seu corpo.
Ela sabia quem seria o dançarino. Ela o tinha visto no momento que entrara no salão. Quando ele chegou até ela, com seus olhos da cor de oceanos, e lhe estendeu a mão e a segurou, foi como se encontrar nos braços da própria mãe Iemanjá.

O balanço do mar, isso lhe tirou as pernas, lhe deu guelras. Se sentiu como sereia.
O dançarino ancorado ao elemento água a submergiu em seus braços e lhe levou para seu mundo, um mundo submarino, fluido, com veios de lava, com um vulcão submerso.
Essa dança era era deslizada pelo chão, com ondas de corpo e alma, em absoluta sincronia com a música. Ele foi aprofundando seus movimentos e por uns momentos acaba prendendo a mão dela na sua, sobre seu coração, ela sentiu o pulsar de seu coração batendo com o dele, seu rosto com o rosto dele.
Num outro giro, como mágica, a mão dela terminou em seu pescoço nu, quente, molhado de suor. Seus olhos se encontraram por um instante, e se perderam numa galáxia distante. Ela derreteu por dentro, em um mundo líquido onde ela não sabe onde seu mundo começa e o dele termina.
Seus pés o seguiram, os dois seguindo a música até sua última batida. Quando eles terminaram estão respirando em sincronia. Ela sentiu que seu medalhão está em perfeito equilíbrio e o portal está energizado por mais um ciclo. Missão cumprida.
O Dragão-Rei descansando silencioso.

Ela sabia que deveria agradecer a dança como havia feito com todos os outros dançarinos, agradecer e fechar a experiência, enquadrando-a no que ela é: apenas um lindo momento no mundo, uma conversa perfeita, de energias em sincronia, um presente divino, um passado.
Mas dessa vez… ela saiu andando, perdida em alto mar…

[#forromates / #sydneyforrodance]

[Imagem principal: Quadro de Leeorah Hursky / http://www.leeorah.com]

Fresh “The Dancing Bug”! From Orble to WordPress

Back in 2008 I created a blog at the the Australian Orble Community called THE DANCING BUG.

It was dedicated to writing about dancing and the Dancing scene in Sydney.

The Orble community disappeared suddenly a few years after I started writing, taking all the posts without notice.

One day it simply went offline.

I decided to move everything across to WordPress.

I was able to transfer the text, finding the images (or as close as I could) inside my old files, noting how many votes I had in Orble, the date and time they were published. I wanted to keep as close as I could from the original for historical data.

I’m keeping the new archive inside the category “The Dancing Bug” in my Taniacreations.com website.

This is the new blog, ready to receive my new writing thoughts on dancing as well…

Twice the blog was among the most voted in the whole community, once in 9th place for the day, once in 3rd place for the day:

04 Apr 2013 – 3rd Place – Directly from the Bachata Me Dance Floor

06 Apr 2013 – 9th Place – Directly from the Bachata Me Dance Floor

Here is a print-screen of the final statistics of the blog before it went awol:

46 Posts + 16 Comments +. 3,193 Votes

The Reason Today

The reason I write today is because I need to write the narratives I want to read.
I need to make my own story and read my own power in my storyline and not let others determine what is available for me to read.
I need to create in the world the possibilities I see in my mind’s eye.
I’m tired of the same old story where everyone conforms to what is dictated by the same old tales and tired run-through formulas.
I want fresh, unused, strange, and unique; my voice deserves to be out there.
Today I am all powerful.

The fellowship of Rainwalkers

Walking in heavy rain is like being part of a tribe.

There’s an instant connection to anyone else braving the elements, holding the umbrella for fear of going Poppins with the wind, a daring to the hurricane to Dorothy you.
I get so many ‘good mornings’ and some belly laughs at the absurdity of the cats and dogs down-pouring. Sometimes I forego the umbrella altogether and let the drops fall to the face, looking up, tongue out, like a frangipani leaf.

Before, most people had to go to the office. Not now. Walking is a deliberate choice, a good one, turns out.

I feel alive. I feel like a knight on a quest. I feel connected to the other brave knights on the road.

Gêmeas de Alma Viva

É possível a gente psicografar texto de alma viva?
Sabe, igual o Xico Xavier fazia com espírito?
Hoje me deparei com esse conto que eu escrevi, e me fala se não é Verissimiano demais da conta?

Medicina Sem Milagres

Eu vivo escrevendo sobre o Veríssimo, o Luis Fernando, que é um dos meus Mestres.

Também fiquei pensando que eu tenho múltiplas-múltiplas-personalidades, e uma das coisas que as divide é a língua. Quem eu sou escrevendo em inglês e em português é completamente diferente. Quem lê as duas línguas deve achar que tem irmãs gêmeas, igual em novela Brasileira, não podem ser a mesma pessoa.

A gêmea australiana hoje amou ler o texto da que a gêmea brasileira escreveu em 2017.

Open Mindedness Galore

I am equally comfortable talking to a hard core scientist as I am with a reincarnated psychic astrologer, and I believe, most ardently, in both their rights of believing whatever they want.
I noticed this week that I was listening to a course about skepticism and how to improve thinking processes with the same eagerness I listen to the possibility of the existence of aliens in the Universe.
I enjoy being open to the possibility of mysteries, aliens, ghosts, multiple dimensions, universes and timelines, imagining there could be another me who is already a full time writer, and so many other possibilities. Would there be another world where the first contact has already been established? Ah, the wonderful world of imagination!


On the other hand, I’m not easily duped, not prone to believing in conspiracies, fake news or falling in cults, even though I believe in positive energies, alignments of planets, power of goddesses, and much of that crap (smile).
I think I accept more than I exclude, but it doesn’t mean I can be manipulated or believe blindly. Just means I’m open to ideas, even if I don’t know if they are real. I can see they could be real, or I can make them real in a book.

Narrative Ghosts

I’ve noticed that we carry ghosts with us, all the time, hundreds of them. More, if we have narrative minds.
There’s the boy from fifth grade that was going to notice you, and hold your hand; the audition that you were going to master and be chosen as the soloist and that would change your path forever, and so many others.
They happen at the moment people make a decision, different from the one you want, and your fantasies created another path for them — in your spirit — and a ghost is born, tethered to your soul.
You are surrounded. Let them go…

Storyteller’s Serenity Prayer

For someone who dislikes the taste of alcohol and has a sort of spirituality that is a mesh of all that is good from several faiths and discards much of all that is structured from these same faiths including most of prayers, finding that, first I have a favourite prayer, and then, that my favourite prayer in the world, The Serenity Prayer, is iconically used by the Alcoholic Anonymous is somewhat ironic.
The original brings me peace and wisdom and joy, but then I adapted it to my own writing mission. The way it came to me, is to help me on the way, and every day it guides me further in my storyteller role.

Storyteller’s Serenity Prayer

[Adapted by Tania Crivellenti]

May Source, give you grace to accept with serenity,
the things that cannot be changed;
Courage, to change the things which should be changed;
And the wisdom, to distinguish one from the other.

Living one day at a time.
Enjoying one moment at a time.
Accepting hardship as a pathway to enlightenment and manuscript.

Taking this sinful world as it is, and being authentic to it,
even when transforming it, making it into written words;
Not as you would have it, but truthful, even in fiction.

Trusting that Source will make all things right;
If you surrender to their will, so that you may be writingly happy in this life;
Find yourself in creative flow often;

And supremely happy, with the legacy you leave, forever in the next.