Damiano Fina

“We high-five with the dead, embraced by eternity. We dance, like statues, waiting. Beyond the night, it has always been day!”

Hi, I’m Damiano

My path began in 2004, encountering the book Shōbōgenzō. At the time, I had no idea where the practice of contemplation would take me. Over time, I followed the red thread that led me to create FÜYA.

In an increasingly fast-paced world, there is a need for a space and time to stop and make sense of things without getting overwhelmed. FÜYA is a method for knowing oneself through contemplation exercises, just as it was in the early philosophical schools of the Mediterranean Sea.

What is the meaning of dancing today?

A question I put to the sacred, tremendum et fascinans, wondering about the origins of being human. Watch my video interview.

We live inside, outside and beyond our skin.

Dance was born as a deep need of the human being to connect with something much greater than himself. Something in which he found not only comfort, but also anguish, mystery and terror: the sacred. The sacred is able to open wide to humanity the great questions that guide its path. This is where the exercises of contemplation begin. Today, in the times of technology, we are fast, faster and faster. Where is the dance? As Nietzsche states, “Dancers are fools to those who do not hear the music.” Running is difficult to hear. Then the madness remains. FÜYA opens a space and time to stop and make sense of our existence.

Is it possible to overcome the pain of death?

The moment my mom passed away, my life changed drastically. Watch the video of my performance “Hecate: eight steps into the eternal.”

“Letters to My Mom” listen to my podcast.

For years I danced death, through butō dance, but the experience of mourning shone a different light on each of my gestures. In the face of grief emerged the need to find an answer to questions I had never attempted to answer. Two things are certain in our eyes: we are born and we die. And this fate appears incontrovertible. Yet, if we go to the root of these words (destiny, incontrovertible, error, appearing) we will come to question that initial certainty for which we are wont to take for granted the meaning of being born and dying. The ancients spoke of meditatio mortis and it is a path that deepened through philosophy.

“Letters to My Mom” listen to my podcast.

For years I danced death, through butō dance, but the experience of mourning shone a different light on each of my gestures. In the face of grief emerged the need to find an answer to questions I had never attempted to answer. Two things are certain in our eyes: we are born and we die. And this fate appears incontrovertible. Yet, if we go to the root of these words (destiny, incontrovertible, error, appearing) we will come to question that initial certainty for which we are wont to take for granted the meaning of being born and dying. The ancients spoke of meditatio mortis and it is a path that deepened through philosophy.

Do you want to participate in my classes?

The purpose of the FÜYA method is to re-establish a point of balance with the world. Its success lies in how it can positively change the way we live our lives.

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