EP. 33 - Xena: Exploring Asia Through Food, Language, Dance, and Random Experiences

Sorry, but like, so coming back to a little bit of your own, like, background, you also say something interesting about your idea of what the language of communication is, because Everybody has their own ideas of languages.

Some people use it at pure survival, just the ability to get things done or to go from A to B.

Some people use it as an art form and with poetry.

But you also have a very interesting interpretation of what language is or communication in general.

so like beyond the words beyond the grammar beyond the boring stuff the boring dictionary oh we don't like that what what do you think language is actually is to you

I'd say language exists beyond words.

As I said at the beginning, I am also deeply connected to arts and sometimes movement arrived, okay, circling back.

Yeah, don't worry.

Sometimes movement arrives way before words.

Being able to enter in a room full of, for instance, full of dancers, full of musicians, and doing this exact thing that can connect you But still, you don't know how to say hi, you don't know how to say what's your name, where you come from.

But there's this specific thing that you both learned that can instantly connect you and you instantly have something to click about.

Yeah.

You also have a lot of experience in the world of dancing too, Nichelle.

Oh,

yes, I do.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's so great.

I had this experience once in Brazil when I didn't know any Brazilian Portuguese yet.

And I went to Fajal Place or was it Kizomba? I don't remember, but it was one of the two dances.

And I was there like for an hour and I could dance with everybody.

But everybody, every time somebody tried to talk to me in Portuguese, I was like...

sorry i

don't understand but we could dance together for an hour so it's really amazing how dance is their own language

indeed it's amazing it's really amazing

yeah unfortunately i don't have that much dancing knowledge so when you guys talk about this sort of connection i just think somebody entering the room and be like like this and everybody you get it come here it's of course it doesn't work like that but it's i don't know why i had this uh imaginary thing like thing in in my mind