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Welcome to WADING, a journey beyond appearances through philosophy and butoh dance. I’m your host, Damiano Fina, and in each episode we will wade through profound questions that challenge the limits of our perception. WADING invites listeners to walk through the metaphorical river that separates worlds, much like the mythic crossings guided by Charon in ancient lore. As we step into these waters, remember: the world is more than what we see. Are you ready to wade in? Let’s begin!

Episódios

  1. há 5 dias

    Death is Impossible! Witnessing Eternity with Emanuele Severino

    What if death doesn’t mean becoming nothing? In this episode of WADING, I explore the radical philosophy of Italian thinker Emanuele Severino and his claim that every being is eternal. If becoming means that something passes from being into nothingness, then becoming itself contains a contradiction. What disappears from our experience may not therefore be annihilated, but simply leave the horizon of appearance. Through philosophy, grief, personal memories, Chopin and butoh dance, I reflect on what happens when we begin to question one of our deepest convictions: that we are mortal. Perhaps we don’t need to become immortal. Perhaps we’ve never been anything other than eternal.

    Death is Impossible! Witnessing Eternity with Emanuele Severino

  2. 20 de ago.

    Better Never to Have Been Born! Philosophy as Meditatio Mortis

    In this episode of WADING, I explore philosophy as meditatio mortis: an exercise in thinking about death in order to understand existence more deeply. Starting from the disturbing wisdom of Silenus — that it might have been better never to have been born — I move through Solon, Socrates, Epicurus, Prometheus, Heraclitus and Zen tradition to ask how human beings have tried to confront mortality. Is death simply something to fear and overcome? Or can it teach us something about life, birth and the meaning of existence itself? From the calm of Socrates to Epicurus’ attempt to dissolve the fear of death, philosophy offers different ways of facing the same fundamental question. And beneath all of them lies an even more radical possibility: what if existence were not ultimately suspended between birth and annihilation, but between annihilation and eternity?

    Better Never to Have Been Born! Philosophy as Meditatio Mortis

  3. 13 de ago.

    Tracing the Remedy Against Grief

    In this episode of WADING, I continue my journey through grief by asking a question that has accompanied human beings for centuries: what remedy do we seek when we’re confronted with death? Grief cannot simply be hidden or annihilated. But it can be listened to. And when we listen to it, it can reveal itself as another face of love: the trace of a presence that continues through memory, even when someone is no longer with us in the same way. Starting from my personal experience of bereavement, I explore how contemporary society often leaves us unprepared for death and mourning, and how human beings have historically searched for protection from precariousness through relationships, institutions, technology, spirituality, science and knowledge. But what about philosophy? From the earliest Greek thinkers to Seneca, Marcus Aurelius and Emanuele Severino, philosophy has long confronted the anguish of death by searching for meaning and truth. This episode is an invitation to rediscover philosophy as a possible practice of preparation: a meditatio mortis capable of helping us think about death before death forces us to.

    Tracing the Remedy Against Grief

  4. 6 de ago.

    My Journey of Grieving Through Dance and Philosophy

    In this episode of WADING, I share my personal journey through grief after the death of my mother, and the path that led me to explore mourning through philosophy, death education, and butoh dance. How can we bear the pain of loss? What does death mean when it suddenly enters our lives? And can the body become a place where grief is not only endured, but listened to, transformed, and expressed? Through memories, philosophical reflection, and my experience of creating Letters to My Mom, I explore grief not as something to overcome or erase, but as a profound transformation of our relationship with life, death, memory, and presence. A personal episode about loss, dance, philosophy, and the search for a way to continue living without forgetting those who are no longer physically beside us.

    My Journey of Grieving Through Dance and Philosophy

  5. 11/10/2025

    Spring of a Dancer (the poem)

    Spring of a Dancer is a film, a book, a poem, a theatrical performance, a podcast, and a philosophical lecture on dance. Wondering what is the point of dancing today is one of the questions that has been close to my heart since I first became involved in dance. Butoh dance invites us to the scandal of the flesh, because it rebels against the rules and norms that claim to tell us what movement is right and wrong, what is beautiful and ugly, to the point of reminding us that even the line between what is alive and what is dead is not so clear. Spring of a Dancer is a hymn to the timeless rhythm that pulses through all things: the fire that gives birth to the stars. Invoking his prayer to the Sun, indifferent to our questions, the dancer sheds the skin of the mundane, echoing the ancient wisdom of the serpent: “If you remain under your skin, you miss most of what moves the heavens”. As the Great Crow beats its wings and Janus whispers to us to open the door, FÜYA urges us to question the meaning of pain: "Life is hard. All this pain can destroy you. Yet, in dance, grace blossoms like the first flowers of spring, ephemeral and eternal. For this reason, it is worth dancing today." I invite you to ⁠⁠watch the trailer for my film Spring of a Dancer⁠ on YouTube⁠ and ⁠read my new book Spring of a Dancer on Amazon Books⁠.

    Spring of a Dancer (the poem)

  6. 01/04/2025

    The Dance of the Stars

    "All things were born from a single fire" say the fragments of the Chaldean Oracles. In fact, without the splendour of the dance of the Sun, not only would there be no light for our planet, but the solar system could not even have formed. The Sun is at the centre of our experience of the rhythm of existence. It distinguishes day from night, brings the fruits of the earth to maturity, controls the cycle of the seasons, and contributes to the water cycle. We can say with certainty that everything that happens on planet Earth depends on its position in relation to the star we call the Sun. I invite you to ⁠⁠watch the trailer for my film Spring of a Dancer⁠ on YouTube⁠ and ⁠read my new book Spring of a Dancer on Amazon Books⁠.

    The Dance of the Stars

  7. 30/03/2025

    What is the Point of Dancing Today?

    Wondering what’s the point of dancing today is one of the questions that has been close to my heart since I started to get involved in dance. Just as butoh dance invites us to desecrate conventions and explore the areas that question the boundaries between masculine and feminine, life and death, grace and vulgarity; so philosophical thought invites us to question our beliefs, preparing us to enjoy questioning and criticising, rather than being satisfied with the answers we are able to provide today or that our ancestors gave us. Only philosophy, in fact, asks itself the question about truth and incessantly continues its critical exercise, without ever being satisfied with the answers that gradually emerge from this research. To avoid remaining imprisoned in our own little world, butoh dance and philosophy call us to go beyond ourselves and ask ourselves those fundamental questions that our ancestors have been asking themselves since the time of the cave: who are we, where do we come from, where are we going? I invite you to ⁠⁠watch the trailer for my film Spring of a Dancer⁠ on YouTube⁠ and ⁠read my new book Spring of a Dancer on Amazon Books⁠.

    What is the Point of Dancing Today?

  8. 17/01/2025

    Introducing "Spring of a Dancer": a Film and Book of Rebirth

    The line between what is alive and what is dead is not so clear. Going through the pain of grief, I have learned that every ending is already a new beginning. None of us wants to grieve, certainly. Life can be difficult. Yet in the midst of the storm, we may surprise ourselves, turning our gaze beyond our skin frame. Like the fatigue of buds, during winter, we can let a new dance bloom when spring comes. From these thoughts my new project was born: ⁠Spring of a Dancer⁠. I hope it catches you in a moment of inspiration. I invite you to ⁠watch the trailer for my film Spring of a Dancer⁠ on YouTube and read my new book Spring of a Dancer on Amazon Books.

    Introducing "Spring of a Dancer": a Film and Book of Rebirth

  9. 27/11/2024

    Dancing Death: Butoh Dance for Death Education

    When we look death in the face we learn a little more about living. This is what grief has taught me, but not only that. Butoh dance has repeatedly allowed me to dance in the face of death. Indeed, as Hijikata Tatsumi says, the body of a butoh dancer is like a corpse desperately holding on. With our dance, which is life and death together, Ohno Kazuo teaches, we must be grateful for all those deaths that have allowed us to be here at this moment. The dance, then, is like a prayer to existence. Every step of butoh is always held in the balance between life and death, breaking through walls, playing with the invisible. Today I think the pain we face when we are faced with death is an initiation. Death is an experience that restores an essential connection with our ancestors. In the face of horror at what disappears we find ourselves having to answer the questions that humanity has always asked. Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going? In this episode I present you a reflection about dance as death education.

    Dancing Death: Butoh Dance for Death Education

  10. 22/10/2024

    A Dancing Corpse, Meditating With The Skull

    To achieve enlightenment, shamans teach, one must first bury oneself in the cave. In fact, they say, to open our gaze, we must close our eyes in the darkness of the earth. The shaman, like the butoh dancer, lives straddling the world of the living and the world of the dead, sometimes exchanging favor and sometimes hostility with spirits. Like alchemists, shamans challenge the boundaries between mortal and immortal things. Guarding the laws that govern the motions of the heavens, they plunge into what most consider “the end” or, rather, “the limit”, to return hermetic messages. The butoh dancer, for Hijikata Tatsumi, dances like a corpse desperately holding itself up, falling and rising again trespassing between worlds, defying the rules that separate the sacred from the obscene, as in ancient Greek tragedies. That darkness it passes through is so dark as to be luminous. It takes a journey into the body’s possibilities of connecting in, out, and beyond its own skin frame. Like the ancient ascetics of death, it sees its skeleton glowing with a golden light.

    A Dancing Corpse, Meditating With The Skull

  11. 09/09/2024

    Butoh: Dancing Inside, Outside, Beyond

    Dancing taught me that none of us live merely under our own skin. John Dewey, an American philosopher of the 20th century, said that our organs, in fact, are made to connect with what goes beyond our skin. This is why I teach dance. With my FÜYA method I invite my students to reflect on the meaning of dance and on the fact that dance actually allows us to experience our inner world, therefore dancing our inside; to experience what is around us, to dance our outside and also to dance even concepts such as death, and this is all that allows us to dance beyond our bodily frame, beyond our skin. Dance offers experiences that are completely free and queer, there are no gender or sex limitations, there are no limitations regarding our age, our physical capabilities and our abilities motor. Dance can be absolutely inclusive: there is no right or wrong movement. Butoh dance allows us to adhere to contexts that we can define as "dance therapy", "art therapy", to develop experiences which are useful for dealing with trauma, for dealing with mourning, and therefore for dealing with those situations in which to see the difference between a before and an after.

    Butoh: Dancing Inside, Outside, Beyond

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    A Journey Beyond Appearances Through Philosophy and Butoh Dance

    WADING invites listeners to walk through the metaphorical river that separates worlds, much like the mythic crossings guided by Charon in ancient lore. This podcast is a journey into that very process of transcending what is immediately present. Through the expressive power of butoh dance — a performance art form that delves deep into the human spirit of ritual rebellion — and the philosophical insights of thinkers like Emanuele Severino, WADING explores how we navigate and understand the layers of reality that lie beyond the surface. Find out more on the website www.damianofina.it

    A Journey Beyond Appearances Through Philosophy and Butoh Dance

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Welcome to WADING, a journey beyond appearances through philosophy and butoh dance. I’m your host, Damiano Fina, and in each episode we will wade through profound questions that challenge the limits of our perception. WADING invites listeners to walk through the metaphorical river that separates worlds, much like the mythic crossings guided by Charon in ancient lore. As we step into these waters, remember: the world is more than what we see. Are you ready to wade in? Let’s begin!

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    Damiano Fina
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    Damiano Fina
  • Anos de atividade
    2024 - 2026
  • Episódios
    12
  • Classificação
    Livre
  • Copyright
    © Damiano Fina
  • Site do podcast
    WADING

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