It's a Dance

We just watched the movie "Buck" about the expert in natural horsemanship, Buck Brannaman.  Our family is a lot more involved with horse culture than we sometimes want to be, but still grateful for all that it has brought to us, especially to Dr. Alice, our young Equine Vet daughter, and to my sister, Dr. Meg, one of the first woman race track Vets, if not the first.


For tango people, please watch it.  Look at the trailer, look at how Brannaman moves with the horse so closely that in silhouette you see the centaur, man with the legs of the horse.  


Brannaman uses the word dance quite a few times in this brilliant documentary.  If you watch it, look at the scenes with the rope, the demonstration of connection through the tension of the rope, and what can happen around that. 


Our first tango lessons were hard for me because in my mind I saw horse training, and I did not like being the horse.  But here you see what the horse brings.  You see why great leaders know how to listen and to bring out the best in the horse. There are so many words of wisdom in this film that we will surely return to it again. It is interesting too, that I have observed that both daughter and sister are capable dancers, and will follow beautifully, and this does not mean that they aren't fully engaged in leading in their professional lives.