time to DANCE, and to dance TIME

“Somewhere, you see, in the river of time, I am already alive.”

_Akwaeke Emezi

When we reflect on time, we often imagine it as something separate, linear and distant. Yet in dance time becomes intimate where we release ‘Chronos” and the measurement of time and embrace “Kairos” where time becomes a sensation. The “now” is not a concept but a lived experience. As we move through our dances, each movement dissolves before we can hold onto it. There is no waiting for reflection or to ponder as we inhabit each movement moment by moment.

When I dance, I am never where I used to be and that's a gift. Each movement carries the memory and experience of what came before, building up a unique dance which is both ephemeral but also etched into our nervous system and heart. The dance represents a living story of past, present, and future continuously shaping that experience. Nothing remains, yet nothing is lost.

This is a beautiful metaphor for life. Just as in the dance, we are continuously shaped by what has been while being invited into what is emerging. Past, present, and future become a continuous movement. Through Biodanza, we learn to trust this flow and to surrender to each unfolding moment. By dancing this way, we recognise that transformation is always happening. Life dances us forward and when we notice this, we realise that time itself is continuously creating us.

_Christos Daskalakos

Dancing the Living Current

“The truest expression of a people is in its dance and its music. 

Bodies never lie.”

_Agnes de Mille

Biodanza encourages us to stop dancing as individuals and begin moving as something larger. When we surrender to the dance it feels less like “me dancing” and more like life itself moving through us. In these experiences we are not alone as we bring our human presence in motion setting aside all that separates us.

When we dance with this energy something archetypal awakens. Beyond our individual stories we move with each other in a simple more ancient way – a dance born at the dawn of our humanity. Rhythm synchronises our bodies, melodies softens our hearts, and almost like a tribe that becomes a single organism we move in the living current of life itself.

Just as ancient rituals and ceremonies inspired the collective, dance teaches us that we do not have to cross this river of time alone. When we surrender to the music and to the presence of each other, the movement reminds us of the collective intelligence that has carried humanity across the ages. To dance this living current is to trust life and surrender to the mystery that is our existence.

_Christos Daskalakos

DANCE...being in transformation

“There is more wisdom in your body 

than in your deepest philosophy.”

_Friedrich Nietzsche

There are moments in dance when our bodies transcend the ordinary, no longer feeling personal but expanded, something larger than ourselves. It is as if the dancing body becomes mythical. Through dance we sense ourselves stepping beyond the familiar edges of who we think we are. In Biodanza, the dancing body not only expresses our identity, but also becomes the place where life is reshaped.

In this sense, the dancing body becomes an ecstatic crossing between two worlds: the one we are leaving and the one we are entering. To change, we must release our usual sense of identity. Movement softens habitual patterns in both the body and the mind. In this way, ecstasy offers a moment in which we momentarily move outside this familiar version of self and opens the possibility for something new to emerge.

Each dance therefore becomes a threshold. We become “beings in transformation,” guided by the wisdom of the body. It reminds us that transformation is not something we think about, but something we dance into.

_Christos Daskalakos

a CHORUS

“For everything there is a myth.”

_Constantinos Loukopoulos

The chorus in ancient Greek drama was a living collective presence that danced and moved between the action (LIFE) and the audience (THE ONE LIVING). Embodying the emotional and mythic field of the story, it functioned as a regulator of intensity, integrating the experience so that the individual protagonist’s journey became a shared human one. Through rhythm and movement, the individual story was transformed into collective meaning.

When Rolando Toro articulated the Seven Powers of Biodanza, he included the “Power of the Group.” When we dance together, we evoke an ancient archetype. Just as the chorus holds the drama in Greek theatre, the Biodanza group holds our individual stories within a collective vivencia. The group becomes a shared field where we think, feel, and transform together through our shared dances.

Without words, the group becomes an intense interactive field where experiences are mutually induced and reflected in one another. Dancing with others has the power to shift our attitudes, soften our beliefs, and reshape the ways we relate as human beings. We encounter life through the poetry of the body, not through language, and in this way dance rewrites our stories, not through intellect, but through the heart.

_Christos Daskalakos