This video essay experiments with the idea of three in by overlapping three different mediums: 1) the 3/4 timing of waltz music, 2) the three beat choreography of waltz dancing, and 3) the form of terza rima poetry in three line stanzas.

This piece was inspired by my practice of three mediums: poetry, ballroom dance, and music. As an artist, I find myself both inspired and flummoxed as I attempt to arrange my words and my body into a certain form of expression. Some ideas resist being tidily arranged, and this piece is an acknowledgement of that beautiful yet baffling truth.

Michael Morgan, Dancer

“Song for Viola” by Peter Bradley Adams

Logan Gardner, Videographer

About the author

Sarah Safsten (she/her) is an essayist from Springville, Utah. Her essays have recently been published in journals such as Inscape, Exponent II, Dialogue, and Sky Island Journal, and she teaches English at Utah Valley University. When Sarah isn’t reading, writing, or teaching, you might find her dancing.