02/09/2020
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“Go Ask the River”
“For the goal, the river was heading, Siddhartha saw it hurrying, the river, which consisted of
him and his loved ones and of all people, he had ever seen, all of these waves and waters were
hurrying, suffering, towards goals, many goals, the waterfall, the lake, the rapids, the sea, and
all goals were reached, and every goal was followed by a new one, and the water turned into
v***r and rose to the sky, turned into rain and poured down from the sky, turned into a source,
a stream, a river, headed forward once again, flowed on once again. But the longing voice had
changed. It still resounded, full of suffering, searching, but other voices joined it, voices of joy
and of suffering, good and bad voices, laughing and sad ones, a hundred voices, a thousand
voices.”
Extract from the book “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse.
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As a dancer, creator and artist I am continuously researching my identity; what moves
me, excites me, makes me feel good. Looking for a moment in which nothing matters
apart from being, where my deepest layer of the inside and the deepest layer of the
outside connect. So much space, many concepts, rules, physical bodies set those
layers apart, yet in that moment it feels free like if there is nothing in between, like if
everything is only one thing, the same thing.
That one thing, let’s call it unity, can’t exist if there is no distinction, diversity.
Comparing this idea to the extract of “Siddhartha” mentioned above, the river
represents the unity, the existence. As unity it contains infinite diversity. Life is inside
the river, it reflects us, the nostalgy, the strength, the freedom, the constant
evolution,...; Always running towards the goal, at the same time repeating itself in
unique and infinite loops.
