DESCRIPTION
They say life is a journey. In 5Rhythms, we set out on a journey from inertia, through imitation, intuition, imagination to inspiration. This is a journey not just through different physical movements, but also through different levels of consciousness. The first step we take is from unconscious, passive inactivity to imitating other people's movement, actions and life in order to experience something new. When we realise that we can't get very far in „other people's shoes“, we are in the realm of intuition where we search for our authentic selves in the middle of the world falling apart in chaos. Our creative selves, that what we are in our bone and marrow, show up through imagination when we are put back together by a dance that is bigger than us and that we create new worlds from. Inspiration floods in when we step back and let this force flow though us freely, by its own will, without our little egos' interventions. We travel all these realms only to reach that sweet moment of surrender to ecstasy, that miracle of pure life and joy that radiates in and out of ourselves. And every dance is an expectation and a journey towards it, whether we know it or not. Rhythm by rhythm, from flowing to staccato to chaos to lyrical to stillness, we release our bodies and our senses, we release everything we've learned about ourselves and the world, we disolve everything we've ever felt and thought it ours, so that we can take in that sweet smell of ecstasy, so that we can slip into it efortlessly and become completely alive! In the ritual theatre, from that empty space of all possibility, our bodies will reveal their own rituals, myths and symbols, their own mantras and patterns which will reshape not only ourselves into joy and lightness, but also the world around us, all of those who see us, feel us, expirience us… This is an invitation to all of us to celebrate being alive!