Where are you dancing?

“Whatever music you beat on your drum 

there is somebody who can dance to it.”

_Chinua Achebe

You may think you dance in a space defined by a floor, walls, and a ceiling. You may think that your dance takes place at a particular moment in time.

The truth is that dance takes place elsewhere. Dance has its own time and space. When we say that we ‘lose our self’ in the dance, what we are really saying, is that we are entering the special space-time created by dance. Outside of our ordinary state of linear time, beyond the confines of our physical space, dance creates a place in which there is only the dance.

We have been connecting to the dance online for the past 19 months and what really strikes me is the ongoing and loving connection we create through our dance even when we are not in the same room. There is an energetic connection that transcends space and time, made possible by the fact that we are dancing together to the same music. The computer and the screen are not in the way of our experience. We connect through sharing. Our capacity to empathise is heightened by the dance. All this can be explained scientifically…

But for now, we are dancing the magic together.

_Christos Daskalakos