The participants shared how the body – mind connectedness
also worked in the sense that the
mind influenced the body when it came to remembering
the specific movements, which were to be
done in the public performance. When asked if
the dancing was a challenge for the body, the typical
answer was “ no, but for the memory, it was
so hard to remember the different steps ” . One
way to remember the different steps was to make
a story –a story that had nothing to do with
the performance per se but made sense for the individual. From that story, they could perform the movements in the correct order. One participant
expressed it as follows: