Let It Happen: a short film about Isadora Duncan, silk dancers and 432 Hz

You don’t have to know the steps. Our second short film is about letting go. 🎧 Best with headphones.

Standing still

Isadora Duncan, the mother of modern dance, wrote that she would stand for hours, perfectly still, her hands folded over her solar plexus. She wasn’t looking for a step. She was waiting for the movement that wanted to come.

The sand and the silk

Sand on a singing plate works the same way. It doesn’t choose its shape; it lets the sound decide (read more). And the serpentine dancers of 1900 didn’t dance their silk. They let it fly.

That’s what we practise at Ecstatic Oracle Dance. No steps to learn, nothing to get right. Just stop holding on, and let it happen.

What you’re hearing

• A 432 Hz tone, with the sand on the plate forming the figure for that frequency.
• An 8 Hz binaural beat in the alpha range, the rhythm of relaxed, open attention. Your brain hears the 8 Hz difference between your two ears, but only through headphones.
• The same 8 Hz as a gentle pulse, so you can feel it on phone speakers as well.
• A drone built on the harmonic series of 108 Hz.

We offer these as an invitation to relax and listen, not as a treatment.

Come and dance

Want to feel it in your body rather than on a screen? See the upcoming events and dance with us at the Mariakapel in Nijmegen. 🔮

Archive film: Prelinger Archives, Denishawn (1915) and Pathé serpentine dance (1902), all public domain. The Chladni plate is a simulation.