Allow for at least 15 minutes. You will need a comfortable place to sit inside or outside, to close your eyes and listen.
This Somatic Act can be done as a solo, duet, or group.
I'm outside listening
to the sound
of the church bells.
I can hear a little rustle
of a leaf
and a bird
who's plopping itself down
on a red berry and
inserting its beak
like a big, deep weapon.
I know that there's a quiet
sometimes
that resides in myself
and I wonder,
do you ever look for that
sometimes on a Sunday?
I'm here in Oslo, Norway,
far from home
but I wonder what home is
for all of us now.
Something inside a place?
Wherever you are,
wherever you find yourself,
can you let
the sound fill you
into the home of your body,
into the home of your heart,
into the home of your pores,
into the home of your skin,
into the home where your feet land today.
Can you let that sound
move you?
Can you let my voice
and its sound resonate
in all your tissues
and all your
bones?
Can you hear the little bird?
Can you hear the little children screaming?
Can you hear the buggy,
strolling down the road.
What do you hear?
Sometimes
if it's really quiet,
you can hear your own heart
beating
like it has something to say,
like there's something important
that you might have missed
if you weren't listening
just in that moment.
Maybe you can even feel
my lips move while I speak,
and maybe
it touches yours,
and maybe
in that moment
something
settles.
I don't know where you are,
but I hope
you're ´at home´.
Note: This audio recording was created and performed for and in 2021 as part of´SILENT´, by Terez Ondrová, a collective audio performance, PONEC- divadlo pro tanec, Prague, CZ.