Letters to my mum
Dance and Alchemy
FÜYA Method
In “Dance and Alchemy” Damiano Fina takes dance back to its origins in order to illuminate its future, without neglecting the history of performance at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. According to the author, today it is necessary to lead the performing arts back to the sacred and the ritual.
Return to the origins of dance around the fire.
When the sky was full of stars, the human organism was made of stories and rhythms around the fire. Those days are still in our memories. The study of the body led me to create a methodology that studied the strength of our connection with the origins of dance. FÜYA is a pedagogical approach to dance and alchemy, which aims to bring the human creature back to the awareness of its roots, to restore its balance with the world.
Dance must return to the sacred
The days of hunting and dancing around the fire are still in our cells, along with ancient worldviews. Alchemy was not born as a science for its own sake, as we know it today, but it blossoms from the conquest of matter through fire and guards the initiatory secret that unites humanity with heaven.
Dance opens up the invisible
Restoring the link between the sacred and the profane
In order to restore this link between the sacred and the profane, art must take an interest in pedagogy. Thus the FÜYA method was born, because dance and performance are educational.
The FÜYA method was born and developed thanks to the dance courses that Damiano Fina regularly leads, thanks to the journeys he has undertaken to share his research through performances, workshops and meetings, thanks to his studies and constant research, thanks to the meditation he met in 2004 and, of course, thanks to dance.
What is alchemy?
The invisible is important.
The FÜYA method
ÜYA is a kinesthetic, philosophical and poetic method based on the theory of the four bodies and body balances, which educates dance to the connection with the transformation and sacredness of existence through the development of the alchemical body. It is preparatory to develop body posture, the origin and quality of movement, choreographic inspiration and the very reason for one’s dance. Its aim is to stimulate students’ reflection through the development of a historical memory and philosophical awareness of dance and performance.
As well as inviting attention to the use of the body and gesture, the FÜYA method invites students to build a historical memory and philosophical awareness necessary to rethink the role of dance and the arts in the 21st century. Without a historical and philosophical perspective and awareness of performance, it is not possible to consciously orient oneself in artistic research.