The Ritual Of Embrace

This mystical experience welcomes the primal forces of connection through touch, movement, breathing, and voicing. It starts from a play on Tibetan bowls by one of us and a drop of lavenda water on the crown of the participants. This invitation to the ritual transforms to a dance with soft creatures supported by the electronic ancestral music.

**Performance at Pleinkamer, 2024, photo by** **Marina Kai**

Both music as well as soft sculptures work as activators of the movement and play. Further, they serve for a ritualistic process, in which one participant at a time is being covered by them while the rest of the participants rhythmically massage the covered body. It is supported by voicing and movement in space.

The weight of the sculptures creates an effect of safety and groundness to the one who is covered. At the same time, it invites one’s imagination to intricate associations. This act of rebirth repeats with anyone who wants to experience it. This is an experience of embracing trust and surrendering to the process. Here individual and collective aspects are being equally reinforced.

The next performance is on 10 October 2024, at Bookstore Foundation
Lambertus Zijlplein 7, 1067 JR Amsterdam

Performance during 4-5 May, at DAY Studio, supported by 4-5 Mei

The soft sculptures are made in duo during ritualistic sessions in our studio, involving movement, voicing and meditation in stillness. Here we tune into a full embodied presence together and allow the creative stream to move through us in a wordless dialogue. This silent dialogue includes aspects of deep listening and letting go of control. In this creative ritual, one of us initiates the cut on fabric and the other responds. Responding to each other’s cut line continues till the shape is complete.

The sculptures are made from organic cotton and hemp and natural filling: buckwheat, millet and cherry pits.