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Tripsichore began in 1979 as a company devoted to creating full length dance narratives. They explored a variety of stylistic forms including
punk ballet, conventional modern dance and strict neo-classical technique. They used masks, performed with rock bands and did pop videos.
While yoga was always a part of their training, it wasn't until 1992 that they realised the expressive potential and choreographic viability of yoga postures. Once they began to devise works using yoga asanas, the extraordinary artistic logic of these became evident.
Surprisingly, it would seem that there has been no orthodox tradition for using yoga technique to create dances in the 5000 year history of the discipline. The postures intrinsically possess a sumptuous beauty and fluidity. They are the ideal vehicle to express the themes of harmony, balance, spirituality, ecstasy, bliss and mysticism because they are exactly about these subjects in and of themselves. They are now many years into this experiment and each day brings new discoveries.
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