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THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY METHOD

Values such as "open-mindedness, respect, creativity and continuity"- resemble the stimulators for social cohesion and integration of individual and collective awareness, consciousness and growth

by merging (performing) arts / creativity, storytelling, sciences & NLP.

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BELIEFS, MOTIVATION, THE CORE OF LIFE & DANCE

Life - thus 'dancing through life'- is about growth, sharing and (learning to-, and about) love (in the narrowest and broadest sense)...about human sustainability...and this can only be done from multiple perspectives...

And so did our company values emerge…

A way of living and a method for working -both on and off stage-. Open-mindedness, respect, creativity,

continuity and quality above quantity…

The initial - and current- motivation was (is),

to move out of - the by society and the art world dictated- rigid and hierarchical embedded box of judgmental and static thinking about (the 'art of) life'.

Life, dance, human existence is multidimensional, thus it cannot be understood nor studied through one specific filter.

Consequently, multidisciplinary and a multidimensional open approach, sciences, spirituality, arts & creativity, NLP expressed by diverging dance, music genres and their creators (dancers & crew all from different cultural, economic, societal and spiritual backgrounds for ex.), became the focus and an inherently rich core, while creating an eclectic whole within a fragmented rigid hierarchical system.

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LIFE, DANCE & MOVEMENT 1

Our DANCE = LIFE is a momentarily PERCEPTION of reality

embedded in the ever-CHANGING MOVEMENT of the BODY, MIND & SOUL...

So let’s RISE, ‘dance’...CREATE ‘movement’ = LIVE LIFE ~ DANCE with HONESTY

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FORM, TRANSITIONS & SPACE

Form matters...in life...in dance...

However what happens in-between, the movement between two ‘forms’ & thus stations matter even more perhaps.

»TRANSITION is where there is SPACE,

as there is where DEPTH EMERGES...«

A detailed form can be a momentum of clarity nevertheless whilst change is the constant in our dance movement life , the detailed configuration of every transition counts even more when considering the whole...

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DEPTH, CLARITY & MEANING

If we pay attention to the details & deepen ourselves in the specifics of our movement in transition, the particulars of the seemingly momentarily static form – our stations -, will also have more depth hence meaning...perhaps even on the short-run...

and definitely on the long-run...

A 'good dancer ’ = a smart ‘mover’ through life

makes transitions matter at least as much

as (s)he creates clarity & depth within the form itself...

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LETTING GO, TRUST, GROWTH

& STRUCTURED IMPROVISATION

Let’s dare to JUMP & FLY in (IM)perfection!

I realized...I have taken many many risks...

Yet, RISKS can be merely perceived as ‘a risk’ if I don’t fully TRUST the bigger picture; if I’m not ready to GIVE into my (our) imperfectly perfect = perfectly imperfect LIFE...DANCE...

And so life - dance - continues with a bit of a less anxiety and filled with a higher level of lively responsibility and even more excitement that

truly serves me...

Let's JUMP ! Let go, MOVE & GO WITH THE FLOW...

DARE to...Dance...Improvise...Fall & Grow...