“Dance and music find their way into secret places of the soul.”
_Plato
The beauty of dancing in a group is that as we move to the same rhythms, we start to create a collective energy that is often felt by everyone. Rhythmic patterns and movements create a shared sense of time and flow, bringing everyone into alignment with each other through the music. This shared experience allows individuals to connect deeply with a sense of unity and synchrony with others. This lies at the core of many studies that show that dance stimulates pro-social behaviour in communities.
The feeling of synchronicity can be incredibly powerful providing the dancers with a sense of connection and belonging that can be difficult to replicate in other contexts. This is experiential, embodied and lived in the moment, not rationalised or elaborated in mental ways. Dance transcends language barriers and by extension cultural differences. The joy and pleasure we experience when we dance with each other opens the way for feeling connected.
Not only does dance provide us this experience of being in sync with others but the magic and expansion we feel in the dance opens up the feelings and experience of being connected to the world. Through the dance we can truly say we are in sync, be it the people around us or to life itself in a big way.
_Christos Daskalakos
