Ritual - embedded in our performances

CREMATION: Dancer flames, collectively cleansing

Where a live performance takes place is a sacred space.  What you are experiencing will only happen once in that particular way.  With all the time and energy that goes into creating a Flock performance  we consciously add a specific thought towards what we’d like to see changed.  At a particular moment of transformation in a show, each performer fills in their own wish/prayer.

Ritual is often associated with a repeated prayer-like action, the calling in of what is needed.  Through ritual we can help to bring forward what we envision and  imagine what is possible.  By linking a wish for change to a discovered special place or time, the connection both to our surroundings and to our self expands and strengthens our sense of purpose.

Promoting Planetary Change

WATER as blue rope

During a choreographed dance depicting cremation and purification, there came a high energy moment when the dancers, individually, displayed their own compact solo expression of cleansing.  Each chose and transmitted at that moment, their own idea of a specific change that they wanted to make happen in the world.  They then moved into a circle, turning as a collective wheel of fiery energy. There was a rising thrust of wind-like power, up and out, carrying all their individually held wish-prayers and producing healing energy for our planet.

THE RETURN OF WATER being conjured by children

Honoring Water and its care is a most important element that Flock frequently addresses.  After warring over water, dancers redistribute water by untangling the complexities that the “owners” of our water have brought upon us.