dance canon

[HelenaZF]

Some thoughts about what the dance was saying:



I had the sense that this dance was communicating a reflection of the Trinity. There were three dancers, moving in exactly the same steps, but at different times. There is a Greek word, perichoresis, which is used to describe the relationship of the GodHead to one another. It can be defined as co-indwelling, co-inhering, and mutual interpenetration. It has the connotation of the Trinity in a "dance" together, ever moving and rejoicing over us.



There is, in Song of Solomon 6:13, a reference to "the dance of Mahanaim ", or the dance of "two companies". The inference is that there is an earthly company of dancers, and at the same time, a heavenly company of dancers. That was the sense I had during the presentation of the above piece---that there was a dance going on "over us" in the heavenlies, and that we were "mirroring" that dance.



The candle goblets and the roses were significant as well, and both symbols of Jesus. The candles represented His light....an intangible. And the roses represented his incarnation....the tangible.