REbirth

"In my beginning is my end. In succesion

Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, 

Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place

Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. 

Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, 

Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth." - T.S.Eliot 

As this is a period of many new beginnings - new year, new semester, new plans, etc. - including starting to dance and create body movement after a while I stand almost in awe by how many new beginning we really do get in life. 

And I don't mean the new year. 

We do get a new beginning every day we wake up; it's a brand new day and does not necessarily need to be condemned by the decisions made in the previous one. 

Of course, all of our decisions have consequences - both positive and negative - but we do get to start fresh every day in the sense that we can accept that we made such and such decisions that resulted in such and such consequences and move forward with our lives. 

Life is not static as our body is not static. 

We constantly move. We move even in our sleep because if our internal organs were to shut we would be lifeless and, only then, 100% motionless. 

And if we condemn ourselves into a static life - Emotionless - then we would break the cycle of movement of nature. 

There is nothing standing still in nature and we are part of it. Life goes in cycles, with its ups and downs, with creation and destruction. The same goes for movement. As a choreographer I create movement that I can destroyed or allow it to be destroyed internally any time I chose (or not) to do so. But this does not mean that the movement created has no meaning. Both its beginning and end have a meaning and they are tied together. A new beginning can be found in an ending and and ending can come right through a beginning. As with many other things in this world, one cannot exist without the other. 

All stories - novels, fairytales, poems, films, music pieces, dance pieces, etc. - have a beginning, most likely a middle, and definately and end. This is the natural course of things and there is always a disturbance when this flow is interrupted. For only through an ending can a new beginning arise. For without the ending the beginning would start and continue forever without any suspence or reason for existing. It would be static, eternal and flat. 

The "destruction" that brings about an ending to something is essential in order to REbirth to occur. 

All these new beginning are REbirths that have risen through every single ending that we have previously experienced. 

nothing is permanent in this world. everything moves in cycles. this is REbirth.

###