As dance form, Devapatha engages the vital energy within in order to give aesthetic form as experienced by both the dancer and the audience. It places outer form, style or technique as purely means to expression of the Spirit, emotions, and life energy (qi or prana) of the dancer. Opening to Spirit, in trust and innocence, the dancer's movements naturally perfect of their own accord — as one rides the waves of creative energy, the beauty arises of its own natural manifestation. Styles, outer forms, and technique are studied and perfected only as better serving the creative Spirit. Hence, in this form, one may experience many influences, ranging from internal martial arts, qigong, to raks sharqi, classical temple dance, flamenco and other ethnic genres. None take precedence over others, nor are there any claims of pure expression of any given form or style. Rather, the individual dancer's previous experiences or training become her pallette of unique expressive possibilities in the present moment as it unfolds within the dance. Each dance then serves as a unique journey, for the dancer and, if present, her audience as well.
Dance Classes Winter 2011 Session: Passion For more information, contact dhyana@devapatha.org |
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The real message of the Dance is to open to all who have the urge to express beauty, with no other instrument
than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence
upon anything but space....The Dance is at once the most satisfying and the most beautiful human activity. 
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