Stillness and speed, the dual reality. A central core around which bodies eternally orbit: our trillion individual cells, and also planet Earth, and also our solar system, our spiraling galaxy. Each body autonomous, freely cleaving to a personal rhythm and wild time sense. Time curving and chaotic if we look too closely. Our existence is a ballet of solitary beingness and, simultaneously, a unified expression of togetherness. Could that also describe the dance of human life; at once a solo and an astral ensemble?
Five dancers from the Zurich Ballet melt into one another and wear a curated selection of YVY's core collection. Just as the unfolding day's light shifts its hues, so the leather binding the figures range from a dawn's clean white, melding to a dusky, deep chocolate brown to the finality of total black. Danseurs et danseuses; aligned and adorned; in their stillness and dynamic motion we see synchrony, we sense rhythmic unison. Their poetic movement echoes the quantum harmonics of cells, echoes the gravitational balance of stars. Those blurred and whirling dancers going heaven for leather are harnessed by the core. Held in harmony. Now. Now they're interdependent, striking one chord, weaving one cloth.Listen to Zen master Dogen: time itself is being and being is time. There is only the time-being. There is only one dance.
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