“Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing.
It’s the rhythm of your life.
It’s the expression in time and movement,
in happiness, joy, sadness and envy.”
_Jacques D’Amroise
In the symphony that is our existence, when did we unlearn dance? When did we discard this ancient art leaving it to become alien, strange and challenging? Remember an infant we had rhythm, we had bounce, and we had joy. Sadly, for many along this journey of life, we have lost this innate connection with movement and the expression of our bodies, losing the pleasure that lies embedded in the act of dancing.
Dance is an ancient and integral part of the evolutionary journey. Rhythm has orchestrated our rise from crawling to standing, from stumbling to walking. In our collective history, movement and dance is more than just mere movement. It has been a celebration, a ritual of honour, that as accompanied and given meaning to every aspect of life. When words fail, dance has been communicating the ineffable through the poetry of motion.
To dance is natural. To dance is to unfurl the power of our primal nature, instincts that drive our full expression of life. It becomes the bridge that transcends the limitations that prevent us from reaching out to accompany our fellow travellers on this cosmic path. And beyond all this, dance becomes a cosmic conversation that allows us to witness the beauty of human expression as it harmonises within the greater cosmic dance. And in moments of ecstasy and sheer bliss, all barriers that separate us from one another and the vast cosmos dissolve, igniting a magic in us to be fully present and alive in this great mystery called life.
_Christos Daskalakos
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