Primordial Dance

“Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual place…

Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.”

_Sondra Horton Fraleigh

There is a primordial dance intelligence that lives in our bodies. This is an ancient knowing that uses movement and rhythm to not only regulate our physical aspects but to extend these into beautiful expressions of ourselves and the cosmos we inhabit. Across cultures and down through all ages, people have danced, not only for joy, but to access healing, transformation, and to connect with the sacred.

Our ancestors were not performers, they lived the dance. Rituals and ceremonies transcended the profane taking the dancers into the realms of myth, wonder, and awe. Often the path was through altered states of consciousness, trance, and ecstasy. These states open up portals into the unseen where dance bridges between worlds. In Biodanza we honour this ancient knowledge and create dances that invite us to remember our instinctive wisdom, reclaiming our own power to healing and well-being.

In the absence of ancient rituals of trance, we activate our deeper intelligence by surrendering to the dance. Just like the ancient dancers before us we enter to dance not just to move, but to be moved by life and the mystery that lives in each of our steps.

_Christos Daskalakos