FLOW

Πάντα ρεῖ - “Everything flows.”

_Heraclitus

Dance teaches us to flow. Whether we are moving with intense rhythm or slowly with lyrical music, there is a current moving us forward. Dance is a unified experience, it is an unfolding of movements or stillness that commences with the first sound and continues uninterrupted through elaboration and exploration that finds its own completion.

We learn to adapt to space and time in the presence of others. Dance is about responding, not resisting but allowing the body to learn to navigate obstacles by yielding to find new pathways through movement. This flow becomes an embodied practice of trust as dance unfolds as a lived experience. Listening to the body is the key to creating this trust. We know in our body that the dance will emerge and expand not only into space but internally too as it touches the soul.

In Biodanza flow is less of a metaphor and more a biological and existential function. Through dance it restores our natural capacity to move with life. Movement dissolves the rigidity and armouring of a protecting body. Within this freedom of the dance we learn that life is not something to resist and overcome, but a flowing that we learn to dance with.

_Christos Daskalakos