36th World Congress

on Dance Research

A dancer's creed

 

I believe in one dance

father, all-resonant

revealer of heaven and earth

and of all things visible and invisible:

Light of body,

very dance of very souls,

begotten, not made,

ever-present,

by whom all things are transfigured.

 

Who for us men and for our salvation

came down from heaven

before all worlds

and was incarnate in the bodies of mortals

and humanized them.

And was crucified during the consumer society,

suffered and was buried

and rises again in isolated places

where no scriptures exist.

And comes again with glory

to enliven both the quick and the dead:

whose kingdom shall have no end.

 

I believe in a holy dance,

lord, giver of life,

who proceedeth from independent communities

who speaks by the flesh of humans,

instead of the prophets.

I acknowledge that it constitutes a baptism

for the remission of afflictions and sins

the resurrection of dead limbs,

and the life of the world to come.

 

Alkis Raftis