The happiness of the long-distance dancer

Every time I've seen that video, I get something new from it. It's just so full of joy and discovery and hope. It crosses cultures and boundaries and biases and beliefs. What matters is just that we dance.

And there is this: he begins alone, but his exuberance just has to be shared. We dance best when we dance with others.

It's really the dance of life. Is there anything more wonderful than that?

I'm amazed at the dedication it must have taken to create. I take it event he music is original.

Simply wonderful to watch.

The song is based on the poem "The Stream of Life" by Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in literature. One translation of the poem I found online is as follows:

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day
runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.

It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth
in numberless blades of grass
and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth
and of death, in ebb and in flow.

I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life.
And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.

Neil