Ebb and Flow

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

-Anais Nin

Just as our body reacts to our mind’s mood with lethargy or dance, our mind responds to the state of our body reciprocally. The dark and the light exist simultaneously and it is we who simply move between them. These two central forces govern existence and contentment lies within the confluence of the two.

The bright moments we share with friends on warm afternoons in the sun can too easily wane into isolated, anxious nights where finances look stark, aging becomes painfully apparent and the future looms uncertain and intimidating. We see black covering the sky and forget the sun still shines as luminous as ever just beyond the horizon.

By truly embracing the experience of both the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, and the pendulum swing between the two, we are not trapped. We are free. We can choose to stand up, stretch, start moving again, and dance our way through the ebb and flow of all that time brings us.

Written by: Keith Sutter and Devin Copeland

The Empathy Series

In a world plagued by continued chaos, empathy - one of our species’ most important survival techniques and one of humanity’s finest traits - is more important than ever.

Although we’re all individuals with unique struggles and experiences, our human ability to relate to one another's battles, and our willingness to respond to these hardships with action and understanding, could be our greatest solace in life, as well as our biggest hope for a bright future.

Within this series, each environment intends to inspire an existential question in regards to empathy, while each dancer’s reaction comments on one of our many shared emotions. My interest lies in the dark and light nature of the universe and our relationship to those forces - especially in terms of how we face them alone and together.

“Empathy is... communicating that incredibly healing message of, ‘You’re not alone.’”
― Brené Brown