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Sometimes verbal communication is just too much for me. I just spent two days in constant company of people, hence in constant need to keep up some sort of communication going, and I feel like it's drained me of all my energy. Of course it doesn't help that it was a somehow work related company/meeting, so you end up talking to people you don't really know, saying things you might not really mean or find important, and listening to things that are not really important to you right now, or maybe things that you know better or maybe just plain superficial, uninteresting stuff. Even worse: you might wind up listening to things people say to you because THEY think those things might be important or relevant or interesting to you (when you really couldn't care less), thinking they're doing you a favour and sort of "building a bridge" of communication for you. I guess it's just a problem of small talk.
Maybe this is why I like dancing so much. I like dancing when I go out, I like dancing all by myself, I like dancing classes, I like dancing with another person, even a stranger. No words. Just movement. For me, it is some sort of communication, a way to express my feelings with my body in a much different way than words could. Then of course, it is a sort of communication that not everybody is able to "read"; insofar as I think it is a very sexualized sort of communcation, and you hardly find a person who is willing to dance just for the sake of dancing, for the sake of the encounter of two bodies moving to sound. (Maybe that is a very idealized version of what dancing could/should be).
Then again, when you think of it, small talk might just be a verbal way of dancing together. Both of the partners know the moves, the steps. They know which way they're supposed to go, which way is totally inappropriate and wrong (farting is a no go, for example). So maybe small talk is just a "ballet of verbal superficiality".