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Spalding area's Callum Brazzo: 'Music is not just for ambience and dance makes you feel free'




Hello there! Callum Brazzo here, continuing to make Autistic Lincs.

I cannot believe that I haven't written more about this before and I've written about my social misfirings despite my dancing bringing people into my world, and of course I've written about Chloe, whose idea I heard it was to dance behind the bar of Bentley's where I often let loose, but I do not recall going into detail about how it feels.

In one word; free.

Autistic author Callum Brazzo (18088898)
Autistic author Callum Brazzo (18088898)

But it wasn't always that way when my dad would accompany me to dance lessons only to have me stand or sit at the back of the hall space, lost.

The feeling of freedom and the feeling of being lost are very similar in nature, aren't they?

I could just as easily be lost in the rhythms, vibrations and emotions of the dance floor soundtrack as I am free to move my body to those same rhythms, vibrations and emotions.

'Not all that wander are lost' I believe the common expression is and that definitely explains me.

Dance is a beautiful unspoken language.

Also...

Music is like water and we are like Bruce Lee becoming like water, my friends...

If you don't get the reference, let me attempt to explain.

Bruce Lee famously talked about form and how yet we are formless. Much like when water becomes the shape in which it is poured like a cup or any other vessel, our bodies are vessels for music to fill.

Recently, I came across a video my father and I made five years ago entitled 'because music is not just for ambience...' and it's hit 10,000 views on Facebook at the time of writing this column. It's me performing in a Peterborough shop (I don't remember which) and I have shared it on the then-Spotted: Spalding page and in other places.

It's a short little clip of me doing what my dad likes to call 'the sideways moonwalk' which is neither here nor there for me but he is always asking me to do it...(have I unleashed something terrible now that you know, readers....it was a blissful moment).

Anyway, my point is that I absolute believe that music is not just for ambience and shops, streets and the like are basically just enormous dance floors!

It's fitting to mention shops and Chloe all in one column as my#ShopabilitynotSTOPability campaign continues (does shop and service accessibility ever stop?) but I would like to take time to mention the town centre's Costa and The Ivy Wall.

Between Mr Chai Latte, Mr 13 Guns and Mr Brazzo, I can only hope to rival Marshall Mathers' alter egos Slim Shady and Eminem with my beverage buddies!

On a serious note, all of their staff have always been great to me and their businesses hold key memories in my heart.

Costa: Several poems written and conversations had with friends and colleagues alike, Got my dream job...

The Ivy Wall; First girlfriend, festival committee meetings, a couple of interesting quiz nights, several poems having been written literally at the bar.

But I started this column writing about dance and how it makes me feel.

All the memories I've had on the dance floor, people I've seen, people I've danced with, selfies that have been taken, laughs that have been shared, passion I have observed in other people dancing, the passion I show, the inner demons I have released by almost dancing them out of me....

Dance is one big memory that is great to capture on video, in shops and streets but sometimes it's fine just to be..in the moment.

Because music isn't just for ambience and dance isn't just for a memory to hold onto...

Dance is a memory of how it feels to be lost...and free.



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