From Dance to Canvas
When you look around and see people on the streets, in offices, and in shops, you can clearly see that the whole civilization has forgotten to dance, to express themselves with beautiful movements, to express from the innocence of our hearts, souls, and bodies. It is so clearly visible in the way we move, not being present, entangled in the imaginary stories that go on nonstop in our minds. The little itching emotions take our attention and keep us entangled every second of our days. We do not even realize that we breathe or walk because there is always something more important to focus on.
The joy of dance and creative expression still stays with small kids, but as they age, it gradually disappears. It's so easy to never return to them again. And so, these beautiful domains like creative expression and dance remain in a box labeled “for kids” or in a box “for artists and other crazy people”.
Forgetfulness makes us numb, disabled, and dry.
Our soul is not giving up. It lives in the shadows and corners of our lives, and together with life, it creates many conspiracies that offer opportunities to wake us up.
From its silent companionship, it often reveals its power and strikes us with such force that all the dysfunction falls apart into pieces and the entire perspective we were so stubborn about resets.
Such power is sometimes needed to break through our thick crust of dullness and stubbornness. Then we are lucky when this happens. We breathe hard, fighting for the last piece of identity that's left, and if we are lucky, we give up.
Sometimes we don't manage to suppress the sensitivity in us, and it calls us from time to time with a whispering voice, directing us to find nourishment for our soul.
So much time is needed to break our crusts, and life is incredibly patient with us, calling us to wake up. It seems like it has all of eternity and love to do so.
Every Thursday, my friends and I, we organize dance evenings (for 5 years already), where the music tracks are composed in a way that leads the life energy so naturally, flowing towards surrendering through the space that has been created in our bodies. You just dance spontaneously; no choreography is needed. You dance with resistance, joy, different emotions, all the qualities. No preference.
It's all the different qualities you encounter when you dance this way. You meet all aspects of life. As I've danced like this for some time, it has become a regular practice filled with love and presence.
It's not a science; it's so natural. You don't have to know anything about it, and it works; it just makes you remember. It's simple.
And with creative expression, it works the same way. It's not a lack of art technique knowledge that keeps you from free artistic expression. To be honest, you just need a pencil to start. It is forgetfulness that keeps us far away from our natural creativity.
It's beautiful to use this way to connect yourself to the forgotten and to express yourself with artistic materials, techniques, and art supplies. To encounter all the different qualities in the dance and be playful in expressing them with paint, color, drawing, pastels, with no particular intention, just allowing yourself to be relaxed or even crazy.
The best thing about all this is that you are not using words. Finally, you enter the field of your soul, spirit, or whatever you want to call it, and you start remembering.
We can start remembering together… Check out my Paint and Dance Workshop to nourish yourself.
I'm launching the autumn cycle of creative gatherings in BRNO - 4 Saturday creative workshops - a blend of painting and dance - named ALCHEMY OF ELEMENTS.
We will be exploring the qualities of individual natural elements: water, fire, earth, and air. We will delve into their presence and their impact on our lives through dance and various artistic techniques.
SEP 23, 2023 - WATER
OCT 21, 2023 - FIRE
DEC 2, 2023 - EARTH
JAN 20, 2024 - AIR
You can find more details and registration HERE:
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You have much to look forward to at the end of October 2023 when the new collection of arworks will be released.
love from my studio, Veronika
