Slow Walk

How are you? Do you also feel like you are being rushed through everyday life at an ever-increasing pace? If yes, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker fully understands how you feel. And she is coming to your aid. Deliberately slow, to decelerate the hustle and bustle and to undermine old habits. It's all about walking. A slow walk, not breathtaking, but promoting breathing. And that's by slowing down to five meters per minute or three hundred meters per hour. It's an ambitious goal, but anyone can join in. Because this isn't a dance piece getting performed on stage, but a new, radical experience being conquered, and that with your own body. ‘Walking is also dancing,’ says the world-famous choreographer from Brussels. And walking can be even more than that: It can be meditation. The founder of the Rosas company points out that slow walking has been perfected as a meditation technique in certain branches of Buddhism. Understood in this way, SLOW WALK promotes the coordination of steps and breathing for everyone, which in turn expands awareness of space. The result is the opposite of a mental journey into one's own inner self. Our heightened senses allow us to experience our surroundings in a new way. The same applies to our own bodies. But nobody needs to prove their skills in SLOW WALK. Just simply open your eyes and see your everyday life from a different perspective. Whether you are a dancer or not, we are all equal when it comes to slowing down. Whether tall or short, slim or curvy.