INNER DANCE

“It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer.”

_Shanna LeFluer

So often we think of dance as movement of the body through space. However this external dance is mirrored by an inner dance. As our body moves externally so does something shift internally. The first we perceive through our kinetic sense which allows us to experience our movement and position in space. The second is closer to interoception where using internal sensations both physical and emotional we allow an inner landscape to unfold.

This lies at the core of Biodanza where our dances are not about presentation and performance but designed to awaken what we call “a Vivencia”. This is a lived experience through the body that includes the vitality of movement, the affective heart, our creative impulse, and our capacity to transcend all limitations and feel the fullest and most expanded version of ourselves.

This is all built into the structure of the class. Biodanza is not haphazard or random but based on a precise methodology that makes it become a technology for experiencing the ecstasy of life. The dances outside of us change the dances inside of us. Every Biodanza Vivencia becomes a fluid integration and harmony of these two dances, the visible dance of the body, and the invisible dance of what allows us to feel fully present and alive in the moment.

_Christos Daskalakos