Walking is a gesture that belongs to human beings. Just as dance belongs to the San community of Botswana, who uses it as a tool for healing and for transmitting memory and social cohesion. Ancestral acts, embedded in the bodies, walking and dancing are solitary gestures that can be shared, teaching us to look at the body and its movement as devices for connecting and transforming communities.
The body is a palimpsest - a text written and rewritten by individual stories, cultural inheritances, pain and joy, learned gestures. It is the very site of memory, but also of invention.
- David Le Breton (body anthropologist)
