The Beginning

Creative project · March 2025

The Beginning

What can we hear when we stop speaking? The Beginning was an initiation into listening, presence and collective stillness, a 2.5-hour experience facilitated entirely without words.

Guests entered through a quiet threshold into a space where communication moved beyond language. Through feathers, movement and sound, they explored presence, energy and the subtle dialogue of human connection. A playful sound orchestra made of everyday objects deepened into seven minutes of complete stillness, then returned to expression through movement, creation and dance.

A shared silent meal of grapes, bread and butter, juice and cookies brought it gently to a close. In a final circle, everyone’s first spoken words carried the weight of all that had passed.

WhenMarch 20, 2025
Format2.5 hours, in silence
Guided byDavide Guerriero, Juan Andrés Díaz and Julia Stewart

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