On Palm Sunday weekend, a wonderful group of dancers, with a few exceptions trained at the Institute, met at the Religious Education Centre in Heilsbronn for the workshop “Dancing Resurrection”. Friedel and Saskia took us on a journey through the history of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem with hallelujahs and songs of praise through the dark valley of the painful and suffering events of Holy Week to the resurrection on Easter.
Again and again we experienced this movement, this journey through the depths towards the rejoicing of Easter. Also present was the theme of the garden in the sense of Blaise Pascal: “In a garden the world was lost – in a garden it was redeemed”. Very important to Friedel was and is always our own reference to the themes. I myself experienced how the past two pandemic years and also the war have changed my attitude, my relationship to crises and what influence the images have with which we nourish our souls.
That is why the focus during these days was especially on the spring-like, uplifting and the “Auferstehungsleichte”. Empowered in body and soul and with confidence, we took what we had experienced powerfully in the community out into the world on Sunday afternoon – with the words of Silja Walter in our hearts: “Dancing means resurrection”.
Marianne Baumann