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Ouroboros Ballet by Jean Grand-Maitre
  Performed in Montreal, April '99
 
Some Defenitions of the word "Ouroboros"

A serpent biting its own tail, forming a circle; The symbol of the endless succession of incarnations which form the wheel of life.
-Gaynor Frank, editor, Dictionary of Mysticism, New York: Philosophical Library, 1953.

Destructive, but in a regenerative sort of way. -Leslie Schroter.

You can read very much more about it here: http://www.spirasolaris.ca/sbb4f.html
or smaller amounts here: www.dragon.org/chris/ouroboros.html
or here http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/kuwait/557/ouroboros.html


In the Dance:

-We experience all our lives, without outside influences.
-We experience the Destructive, as well as creative & inspired characters.
-Through out, we believe in a greater presence, or meaning to it all; In a definite dirrection it is meant to take, for us to work towards. At the end, we are crushed, when we see that we WERE all that there is; There was not a possibility for anything More than what we, our lonesome & independant selves did. (& were.)
  That crap of a life was & is the full & only potential.
- At the end, we are nowhere different than the beginning.
-It was all quite meaningless, (our efforts,) as there IS nothing which could be changed.
-it would be like bringing matter Into the universe. -From where?