Simone Forti, Handbook in Motion

I’m reading Simone Forti’s amazing book Handbook in Motion, which is subtitled “An account of an ongoing personal discourse and its manifestations in dance.” It contains some diaristic biographical passages, photographs, drawings, and some discrete and beautiful moments like this one:

I held a large grasshopper in my open hand. It swayed from side to side as we gazed into each other’s eyes. We sustained this alignment of sight through an exact correspondence in our movements, which created a certain resonance between us. We danced together like this for many minutes. I had just saved its life and we were very curious about each other.