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