Existential Creativity and Dance

“Dance is a way of thinking. It helps us develop divergent thinking – the ability to explore multiple solutions to a problem rather than seeking a single, fixed answer.”

— Peter Lovatt –Dance Psychologist

Existential creativity is about making meaning and shaping life. Often we resign ourselves to thinking we are not creative because creativity seems to belong to artists, musicians, and poets. Works of art certainly reflect life, but Rolando Toro identifies one work of art beyond all others. He calls this Ars Magna, the Great Art, and he invites us to dance into creativity not as a way of making “things”, to create this “GREAT ART”, that is life itself.

Dance leads us to the Art of Living. In Biodanza, when we dance, we enter a space where there are no fixed answers, no right or wrong moves — only the experience of the here-and-now that we call Vivencia. In these spaces, something begins to unfold, not as ideas from the mind but as a living process that invites us to think with the body and open an awareness beyond logic and rational control.

Existential creativity arises when we recognise that life itself is a creative process. Peter Lovatt’s research into dance and psychology highlights dance as a way of activating divergent thinking. This is the kind of thinking that expands rather than narrows, that explores many possibilities rather than seeking a single solution. Divergent thinking reflects life not as a fixed predetermined story but a living choreography of existence where everything is fluid, unpredictable, and possible.

_Christos Daskalakos

dancing the WE

“The need for connection and community is primal,

as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.”

_Dean Ornish

Life does not move in isolation. Beneath the stories of separation lies a deeper truth. Everything is held in a cosmic embrace within which we are invited to dance. When we dance in a group this becomes tangible. I have my own dance and yet it is held within the safety of the group. When we dance together, we are bring our presence to each other as individual contributions to the greater dance.

The power of dancing in a group is that we can surrender the illusion of individuality without losing our essence. It is an invitation to move beyond the “I” into the living field that arises when we are present together. Dance becomes a language of empathy where differences become harmony.

In this shared field something sacred awakens. The group becomes a living organism where each person is a vital cell of the whole. These collective dances allow us to not only experience our connection with others but also a deeper connection with life itself. In this space the intelligence of the group becomes the intelligence of existence itself as we connect to the eternal dance of WE.

_Christos Daskalakos

Roots and Stars

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."

_William Shakespear

We are not animals nor angels, and yet we are both.

Through dance this paradox becomes tangible.

Every movement anchors us in the body’s weight, in the solid presence of feet connecting to the earth. At the same time, our movements can open a space of expansion. To dance is to activate our imagination reaching beyond what we can hold, touching the infinite sky of dreams and possibilities. Dance weaves together gravity and lightness, presence and transcendence, grounding and flight.

It is here, in this spiral of movement, that body and cosmos meet.

_Christos Daskalakos