Eros is energy.
It is life force, creativity, cathexis to aliveness.
It moves. It demands movement.
It does not have to be sex, though it certainly and delightfully can be!
And when it is sex, it does not have to look any particular way.
Eros is abundant, it lives everywhere.
It is especially alive and fecund in community, in the interplay between we human-apes in the context of our brilliant villages. It is nutritious. It is healing. It is our birthright and strengthens our primate bonds of trust and reciprocal care and connection.
And in our villages and tribes, Eros is especially present in dance; the moments when we shed our linear minds and engage in our bodies’ unquenchable capacity for expression. When we dance we are sending an erotic beacon out to the world…here we are, let’s be alive with each other!
With permission and invitation to dance consciously and intentionally with your full erotic self, what will you do? With invitation to lay bare your desire, your truth, your aliveness how will move?
DanceEros is an erotic inclusive ecstatic dance space where Movement, Eros and Community are invited into the room to play together in safety, consensuality and sanity.
It is a place where Eros is understood as a personal and community resource to be expressed as desired rather than withheld.
It is a place where the agenda of objectification is invited to the back of the room and the awareness of attunement and improvisation are invited up to have their say.
It is a place where we summon Eros through ourselves first as a possible prelude to moving it with others…not missing ourselves in our hurry to get to another.
We invite Eros in through the front door, in the daylight to tea…
rather than sneaking her in on the sly, unowned and unnamed, through the back door.
We invite Eros into the room however she arrives; from the subtle to the overt, from the sexual to the sensual, from the solo to the communal.
So, with permission and invitation to move Eros in community…
what will you do? Shall we find out together?
Applications due at the end of June.
Be-Coming – August 14th through August 18th
Text by Victor Warring
Photo by Bertil Nilsson