Pleasure Full of Wonder

Whoever I can reach, I help them learn how to pay attention to their children. Our courses are characterized by complete attention, mine as well as everybody else’s. We pay attention to things that are worthy, to unique and exceptional happenings such as somebody’s creation or self-expression. It may be a dance, metamorphosis, tale, or painting. A piece of rag spinning around to music, a sound composition featuring guesswork based on touch, thousands of different things. It is born there and then.

Is it always extraordinary?

Always. This is our secret: pleasure full of wonder.

Isn’t it possible to pretend it?

Yes it is, surely it is. But children instructed by me will recognize and expect the real thing. Once, I remember, Évi was dancing solo for me, I was sitting in front of her on the carpet, turning towards her. Somebody waved at the door behind her, and I waved back. At the end of the dance Évi reproved me: “You didn’t pay attention”. Yes I did, I was watching you. To which she replied: “But not in that way!”

Does one only have to pay attention to one’s own child?

Not at all. You have to pay attention to others’ children in the same way. Parents attending my courses have all learned this; I think they listened from their soul. If they did, they learned a lesson for life, their characters grew to be more complete and they became models for their own children.