Body_Prayer-a dance prayer

In the dance performance Body_Prayer we turn to a spiritual dimension, to prayer and its expression in dance.  In this existential communication, we ask for something that is missing or oppressing us, we articulate a deep longing and at the same time open ourselves to an unknown (jap. ankoku) dimension, an undefined space of desires. Our request first arises in the mind and then expresses itself through our body posture, for example by throwing ourselves on the floor or kneeling down in humility. Collectively or alone, depending on culture and religion, many forms of body language are possible. Our human being appears as a whole, which is larger than our body. In her writings, the philosopher Edith Stein describe this phenomen as a zero point of orientation. This means that everything comes together at this zero point, our ego becomes the body and a whatever distance is no longer possible…