<aside> 🎭 DRAMATIS PERSONAE

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• The Quartet Of Four: Aimee, Scott, Marshall, Francis
• Socrates: Hayley
• Hazrat Inayat Khan: Drew, All Partners
• Xunzi: Shaina
• Mencius: Pieter

<aside> 🎡 SCENE 0 - At The Still Point Of The Turning World

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🎶 The Quartet Of Four:

For the pattern is new in every moment And every moment is a new and shocking Valuation of all we have been.

The dancers are all gone under the hill.

O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant, The captains, merchant bankers, eminent men of letters, The generous patrons of art, the statesmen and the rulers, Distinguished civil servants, chairmen of many committees, Industrial lords and petty contractors, all go into the dark...

I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness, the dancing.

You say I am repeating Something I have said before. I shall say it again.

Shall I say it again? In order to arrive there, To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance. In order to possess what you do not possess You must go by the way of dispossession. In order to arrive at what you are not You must go through the way in which you are not. And what you do not know is the only thing you know And what you own is what you do not own And where you are is where you are not.

<aside> 🏛️ SCENE 1 - Ancient Greece. Socrates teaches his disciples how to dance...

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🎅🏼 SOCRATES SPEAKS:

There is a third form of possession or madness, of which the Muses are the source. This seizes a tender, virgin soul and stimulates it to rapt passionate expression, especially in lyric poetry, glorifying the countless mighty deeds of ancient times for the instruction of posterity. But if any man comes to the gates of poetry without the madness of the Muses, persuaded that skill alone will make him a good poet, then shall he and his works of sanity with him be brought to nought by the poetry of madness, and behold, their place is nowhere to be found.

And guess what? While dancing underground for three days and nights to celebrate The Sacred Mysteries, the rites of spring at Eleusis, I got drunk, stopped asking so many questions, and learned that... the same is true for dancing - let the spirit move you!!!

<aside> 🐘 SCENE 2 - India. The Sufi master speaks on The Mysticism of Sound and Music...

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👨🏻‍🎤 Hazrat Inayat Khan speaks: