What is Cosmology and Sacred Geometry?
The relationship between music, moves, pattern and geometry is one that occurs naturally – yet the awareness of this can lead to greater insight into the art of Oriental dance. Dance and religion – areas so often seen as polarities of the other – are linked through manifestation of shape and symbol; a universal articulation. Sacred geometry exists in dance – spacial shape-making, creative lines and movement that affect our senses, understanding and perception of the space we inhabit. Like nature and science, dance and music have their roots in organic pattern that is part of a natural geometry or underlying structure. Sacred geometry is based on cosmology. To understand cosmology, we must first define a cosmos. A cosmos, by definition, presupposes an underlying order to the universe. Cosmology is the study of the universial creative principles and energies that begin with a centre point – or point of creation and then grows from the centre via a point of departure – we see this in the
