When the world making ends: let there be dance.
How might we dance into the post-apocalyptic eco-spirituality worldview?
The world is a sphere in motion, a rhythmic wave surging with life. Mother Earth does not merely exist passively; she has her unique dance, choreographed in the ceaseless movement of rivers, the ballet of clouds, the sway of trees, and the synchronized entanglement of emergence. Her dances are not mere aesthetic demonstrations but symbolize a resilient affirmation of existence, a spirited revolt against entropy.
Her rhythm is the chorus of the cosmos, a melody woven into every fiber of our being. But have we forgotten how to dance to this cosmic tune? And can reclaiming our inherent rhythms be an act of rebellion, a path to healing, and a foundation for transformative activism?
This contemplation commences in the middle, with a practical query - how can the incorporation of dance into our embodied practices weave threads of collective resistance into the fabric of our lives and our narratives?
Our journey begins with the champions endeavoring to rein in the unruly beast of climate change. But what happens when our dance partners are the very imperialist nation-states orchestrating a performance driven by their disoriented egos? These nation-states have choreographed a dance of dominance, masking ecocide and genocide as democracy, a macabre ballet that even the most earnest climate activists unwittingly uphold in their endeavors to mitigate climate change.
But what of a different dance? A dance that unsettles the settled colonial mindset, that takes root in uncolonized soils and severs the grand narrative ties to world-making that erases other intelligences. A dance of co-liberation.
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