What's war? What's plague? We know they'll pass
Judgement is passed, we see an end to them.
But which of us can cope with this fear, this -
The terror that is named the flight of time?
Anna Akhmatova

A complete and brief metaphysics there will be no other

If we may be so bold, four cornerstones support the house of the human spirit: Mind, God, Love and Death.
Vaulting this structure is Time, the most common, yet most mysterious aspect of reality. Something exists and ceases to exist. Something is a certain way and now it’s different. Something happened yesterday or just a minute ago and reality will never, ever again, be exactly the same. So, Time, the most universally shared aspect of reality, is also its most terrifying.
To cope with this temporal terror, we cling to the foundation of our spiritual habitat, anchored on Mind, God, Love and Death.

Mind serves in detecting eternal — time resistant — truth.

God — the absolute entity — knows neither past nor future, encompassing all in the eternal now.

Love — the most intense experience — resigns from past and future in a concentrated, singular presence.

Death ends the temporality, that mires our lives, and, we may speculate, is perhaps the door to a new temporality, about which we know nothing (almost nothing).

So, these four cornerstones — these mental constructs
— anchor our shelter from the terror and aid us

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The terror that is named the flight of time (premiere)
1. Largo
2. Allegro molto
3. Allegretto
4. Largo
5. Largo
music: Dimitri Shostakovich — String Quartet No. 8 in C minor (Op.110)
choreography & lighting: Agnieszka Laska
[choreography inspired by written works of Anna Akmatova and Leszek Kolakowski]
costumes: Nick Cavanaugh
dancers: Agnieszka Laska Dancers: Allegra Carlson, Nick Cavanaugh, Heidi Nelson, Richard Sokpor
Danscoreo: Guadalupe Godinez, Leticia Mendoza, Carlo Ivan Somera, Eleanne Anguiano, Humberto Sorrano