The Dance

Sacred to the Navajo, mythologized in movies, on first arrival Monument Valley feels otherworldly. Majestic in both scale and sculptural beauty, the terrain is inhabited by few people, little commerce or traffic; wind is the prevailing sound.

As day becomes night, a natural rhythm begins to take hold. Rooted and stoic, the majestic formations rise-up and become familiar markers, quiet signposts seemingly within reach. John Wayne called Monument Valley “where God put the West;” the Navajo people, the “Clearing Among the Rock.” It’s in that clearing—the space between the spires, the place where spirits of ancient Navajo warriors are said to inhabit—that past and present feel most aligned.

“The Dance” honors that place where one world meets another and legendary and modern warriors move as one, the place where mother earth reaches up to kiss father sky.

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