on the edge

My most recent posts have touched a couple of edges....  thanks for staying engaged.   I will respond -- especially about the "invisible" disability stuff.

But for the moment, a thought or two about a different edge -- your back.  I wrote here about the spine, but now I want to think a little about the back.  These are some of the questions that came up for me during rehearsal today.  What exactly is a back?  Where does it start?  Does your wheelchair back count?  Is it a perspective as much as a body part -- i.e., can you only sense your back?  Is it something the audience sees and you feel as not your face or profile view?  If only your back were dancing and/or if you were dancing only from your back or even dancing your back, what would I be seeing from the audience?  How much muscle, how much bone?  Where is muscle and where the bone?  How much of your back is your chair and how much sticks up above it?  You can have the back of your head, yes, but how much of your head and neck are part of your back?

How does your back like to move?