refinding the rules of gravity by Anna Antongiorgi

In this love letter to gravity—enthralled, ambivalent, rebellious, curious—Anna Antongiorgi beautifully delineates the privileges and costs of being earthbound. Here are the injuries of the body but also the near-miracle and joy of dance, the small pleasures and trials of the everyday. Nothing is simply still or safe, “earthquakes become the latest dance craze,” a scar “is a reminder that you have been/fearless before, and healed too,” and “you want to fling the body always off of things    and into openness.” In language that in its supple engagement with the nuances of sound and movement is in itself a kind of choreography, refinding the rules of gravity brings a fraught, tenuous world vividly and achingly to life.

–Laurie Sheck