​Sylvie Lagache, is a contemporary dancer, therapist with a master’s degree in theology specializing in liturgy.

She will develop the concept  of a spiritualized body for a liturgy less reduced to formalism, but more lively, celebrating the Living. She will also talk about mystical dance and the parallel between the bodily learning of a dancer and the learning of the inner way and present her Dance-Energy-Therapy method

“Being in your body as a temple of God and dance the prayer”.

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She tells us:

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"I will therefore give the first seminar on November 4 at 4 p.m. on the theme: “Dance in the liturgy”

where I will develop the importance of a spiritualized body for a liturgy that is less mechanical, flat,

reduced to formalism, but more lively, celebrating the living. I will also talk about mystical dance and

the parallel between the bodily learning of a dancer and the learning of the inner path: breath, anchoring,

verticality and meditation and projection (giving and receiving).

We will dialogue together on the universal dimension of dance as unity between religions.

Today I have chosen to present to you a dance on the Kyrie Eleison, because for me, it is the message

that Christ came to bring, that is to say the inner movement that every Christian must go through:

recognizing his errors, his transgressions, his negative emotions (anger, fears...) for a possible

transformation which is metanoia, conversion. It's going from the Old Man bent and closed in on himself

to the New Man, straight and open, on the move! It is Man resurrected in Christ, a subject developed in

my book “The Unified and Spiritualized Body”.

So the dance that I propose is not of the order of representation, but rather it is a communion between

Man and God and God and Man. It is a prayerful dance, because instead of praying with words we will

pray with the body. The gestures purport to express prayer, repentance, listening, contemplating, bowing,

begging, rising up, receiving grace.

I invited to this seminar first of all people who have been with me, one Ana for over 30 years and the

other Beto for over 10 years, in Brazil. Both continue basic classical dance classes with breathing online.

They will give their testimony in relation to dance and spirituality.

Then I invited a dancer and dance therapist from Ivory Coast who lives his Christian faith deeply and

who will come and talk to us about the importance of dance in the Church."

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Orant dance Kyrie Eleison

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Program: https://cid-ds.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/AGENDA-danse-dans-la-Liturgie.pdf