Dance and Poetry?

       Dance and poetry, while both arts, do not seem very similar to everyone, but they overlap in many ways. This is an idea that I discovered just recently by comparing the similar qualities of both mediums. Both dance and poetry as artistic forms can sometimes be difficult to unravel, but it is part of the journey to understanding both.
       I remember seeing a video of modern dance for the first and saying to myself "what did I just see" and "I do not understand it". Naive at the time, I had no idea what the world of modern dance had to offer. Dance not only serves as a way of moving the body, but can also move the emotions and stimulate the brain. It can be difficult to pick apart, but that is what makes the experience so embodying.
       I also remember the first time I read a difficult poem. It was a Haiku. Prior to the Haiku, I had read simple rhyming poems with the rhyme structure a,b,a,b as well as traditional nursery rhymes such as "Humpty Dumpty" and "Hickory Dickory Dock", but the Haiku was different. It seemed too short to understand and I could not figure out for the life of me, what the poem was pertaining to. But just like the art of dance, I have learned that there is more to poetry than just understudying. There is an art to it as well. I have now learned that dance and poetry are intellectual mediums and sometimes the audience does not have to understand, they just have to take it in (and hopefully enjoy it).