This chapter discusses the author's experience learning some of the movement elements of the Acehnese seudati, one of the most revered dances of the Aceh region of Indonesia. Seudati is a body percussion form that also includes singing and poetry as well as topical commentary and drumming accompaniment. Drawing on theories of affect and the transmission of affect I discuss how doing and watching seudati opened my senses to a greater awareness and appreciation of birdlife. This occurred not because the dance represents birds but in that it seems to work at the level of rhythmic and energetic patterns promoting a familiarity with them. One of the roles of dance activity may be to entwine human and animal life in this way.