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