Dance to write my life

It is necessary to carry in itself a chaos,
to put in the world a dancing star.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In an initial session of Biodanza, people arrive with a mixture of enthusiasm and intrigue, both for the resonance of the proposal, and for the idea of trying a different activity. Being invited to dance “leaving the word aside” to allow the listening of the body is something strange for those people who live with the world of words and even more so if they do it with the world of letters, that is, writers.

We are accustomed to give priority to the visceral expression that arises from the cerebral cortex (from the limbic-hypothalamic region of our brain) to live and, therefore, from there we write.

For fifteen years, due to my journalistic training, I have written informative, interpretative and opinion texts always respecting the formality of my profession. With Biodanza, instead, I learned to write from the body, from movement. With Biodanza
I learned to write from another place, to connect with the poetics of chance, with the beauty of the instant, the deep gaze of another and the immensity, so bare of investitures, that is manifested in that state of purity that happens in the experience. Thus, I understood that before being written, the word must have an intimate contact with the body.

Writing from the luminous part is, in itself, a poetic act. The word becomes an extension of the body that dances in an organic trance and in contact with others. As master Rolando Toro says, Biodanza is the poetics of human encounter because it arises as a ritual space. It is a ceremony, where there is an offering, a divine alchemy that transforms into a
Soul learning that connects us, to each other, through the semantics of our being.
It is touching to think that the language of the corporeal can save the abyss from all that seems unspeakable. The poetics of human encounter is a new paradigm, a hopeful model that can sustain us as humanity through healthy links that allow us to recover lost gestures. From that place, poetry is the fruit of an affective relationship between
the intimacy of the dance and the word that is written in the cellular memory. If we are the sidereal mentors of life, our words can be bridges of connection with other lives, with other mysteries, with other forms of love and new ways to write. With music, in trance, with others.

Our words become, in poetry, the nectar for nourishing bonds, manifestation, dreams and original connection with the joy of living under the stars. Rolando Toro is moved by his conviction that humanity was sown in a galaxy. It resonates in my insides when I read phrases like “we are children of the stars”, “we are made of the dust of
llas”, “from them we come and to them we go”. I feel that there is something true in those phrases danced through the times that demonstrate with such certainty that the everyday is an act of cosmic creation and it is from this closeness to the daily desires and gestures that we can
dive into a deep semiotics. That visceral poetics is what leaves its mark on the feeling of one’s own and with another.

In the theoretical model of Biodanza there is a line called “ontogenesis”, something similar to a photo of the sky taken just at the time of our birth. That line drawn in outer space is our way of life. In it are written our existential desires, or what motivates our desire to live. This is why our dreams come from the sidereal, that is,
of that which is relative to the stars. In this ontogenetic path we are taking stars that determine our destiny… We choose what we want to be and do, what motivates us, that something that fertilizes our corporeality, that subtle and mysterious force that ignites our internal fire and at the same time invites us to flow in lightness. It is because of these resonances that in Biodanza we say that we are, at the same time, the creator, the message and creation. We are beings capable of giving trantastic jumps that broaden the perception of our consciousness, guided by intuition. Thus, we are writing our destiny.
In each class of Biodanza we dance creativity, vitality, affectivity, sexuality and transcendence, the everyday humanity of our gestures in a space care and nourishing that feeds our dreams and also creates new ones. Attentive to perceive the message, to discover the light of the deepest needs, from that body that dances in
to existential questions, like what do we want to do in life? what is our mission? where do we want to live? or with whom?
Do we imagine writing our own destiny according to the choice of stars? We are part of the All and the All lives in us, the universe knows our deep desires and generates a force that motivates us to take the big leap. Let’s not be afraid to fly or write from these new states. If there is so much poetry sheltered in dreams it is because it was always necessary
give them life.

About ten years ago, the professional context had already stolen my soul, dance and dreams. I had a formal life and somewhat empty, a little desperate for liquid loves and with the physiological synergy rolling in the duty to be, I arrived at the round of Biodanza with the last
sigh of faith and embarked. In the process of pedagogical exploration into identity and connection with the joy of living I found myself. I returned to my center and walk towards my stars. I chose never again to stop listening to the word of my body to, instead, live
genuine loves, desires, paths, jobs, etc. It is not something magical but a very intimate experiential process.

Among the old dreams was to venture to travel to unknown places to explore
idiosyncrasies, corporalities, flavors, smells and landscapes. I wanted to continue exploring the poetic language with which we wrap ourselves in the mystery of the other by establishing a pact: simple words, eternal moments, universal gestures, thousands of desires, extensions of life in life. If there is a healing power in words, we will certainly find it in the poetic language that inhabits
our existence.

Biodanza proposes and teaches, through consecutive practice, to develop a loving body language, of mutual contention, positive qualification, symbolic enrichment, affectivity, resorting to ancient worldviews related to nature, to re-emerge and strengthen the poetics of encounter with others. Relationships are the soul tissue by which life is generated and sustained, where through others I see myself, recognize myself and find myself. I like to believe that true human evolution is going back to the origin, to affectivity. To live in coherence with the cycles of nature, with the phases of the moon and the cosmic movement that sounds in the musicality of the stars.

The invitation to participate in this edition is part of the causality of my star. Now, as I write this text, I find myself in Poland, a country of Eastern Europe, with different customs, tastes, smells, colors and sounds. Fulfilling that dream of traveling, I am giving free rein to the girl inside me, who plays with the snow of the forest, living moments that until recently were only part of a dream. I am writing and dancing the ontogenesis of my life, reading my sky to choose the next star with which I will write the story of my life while sharing with others the beauty of living together in other latitudes through a single language, that of tenderness.

Article written in 2023 for the Argentinian magazine Cuerpescritura. See here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12FHbVPtYVlE0XWsBZNBJK8s_9H1PTKxZ/view