I first met Maui Eguia in his hometown, Cebu City in 2009. He talked nonstop. After a very intense and unexpected innerdance where he exploded in voice and uncontrollable movements, Maui lost his voice for many hours, enveloped in an absolute Knowing. Watching him over the years, he would keep returning to the same speechless state, sometimes for days or weeks, an early indicator of the aphasic phenomenon in innerdance outlining:
What happens to Language, Body, History, Time, Memory, Culture and Movement in these heightened states of Consciousness? |
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Aphasia occurs in deep transformations. After deep innerdance processes, there are many cases where people lose their capacities to speak normal sentences, at times, unable to utter a single word over extended periods (which is called Broca's Aphasia). The other form of aphasia is called Wernicke's Aphasia or receptive Aphasia, when people display a great difficulty in comprehending spoken or written language, punctuated by the loss of memory.
Stroke patients often experience an impairment of language centers which govern production or comprehension of speech and the ability to read or write. In an innerdance perspective, the short-term (it can last for an average of thirty minutes to an hour) cessation of language is hardly seen as an impairment. The experience is normally accompanied by feelings of bliss and a profound sense of knowing. |