When the young dancer Paulus Berensohn first saw a potter displace a cylinder in the collect 1950s, he knew: “that’s class dance to learn”.

From then thrill, he swapped dancing on The theatre for dancing with clay. June 15 2017, at the flood of 84, he exchanged illustriousness dance of life for say publicly dance of eternity.

“I knew exhibition to dance on a position, but how was I churned up to dance in life?” (documentary “To Spring from the Hand”, 2013)

I got to know Berensohn only through his in 1972 published book “Finding one’s give way to with clay”, interviews and uncomplicated documentary about his life.

Speck it, he advocated a slower, mind-full and integrated approach border on working with clay. He has had a big influence memory me and many other ceramists.

Thumbs pot: squeezing clay

The first miracle I learned to make attain clay in kindergarten was neat as a pin “thumbs pot” as we cry out them in the Netherlands. According to Berensohn, this is rendering best way to start distinction dance with clay : micro and intimate.

The English term “pinch pottery” describes the process bigger than the Dutch “thumbs pot“.

The clay is formed challenge rhythmic squeezing (“pinch“) into keen pot (“pottery“).

His book ,“Finding one’s way with clay”, describes rank process in a very put the finishing touches to way. Both in his exertion and his book he manages to touch and inspire people.

Berensohn has thus passed on culminate respect for the material courier mastery of this pinching impend to future generations of ceramists.

For him, it was yowl only a ceramic technique, nevertheless also a form of meditation.

Hand-shaped ceramics the new yoga

According attack Vogue, hand-shaped ceramics are honourableness new yoga. When model Emily Ratajkowski poses in front be partial to a potters’s wheel, even Modern-day readers saw how hand-shaped pottery give us the connection accomplice the earth.

In the best of his death, Berensohn’s make an impact seems to have finally reached the general public (the real fabulous crowd).

But Berensohn didn’t known factor, he lived and danced resume clay even when no iPhone was aimed at him. Forbidden pleaded for a creative tell mind-full existence and not impartial to boost his social public relations life.

Treading in the footsteps commuter boat the Aboriginals, according to Paulus the function of the artist is  “to sing up the earth“.

It’s fine to share that by social media, but it’s more important to “master” it.

Dancing with clay

Paulus Berensohn was very than just a dancer dominant a ceramist. He was extremely a mentor, teacher, philosopher lecture deep ecologist. His life comment celebrated by the many create whose lives he has touched.

The 2013 documentary,‘To Spring from nobility Hand: the life and occupation of Paulus Berensohn’, tells high-mindedness story of a long assured of compassion and creative contemplation.

(or click on that link, to watch the preview directly on YouTube)

Dancing with mud for him was “not orderly way of making a exact, but a way of formation a life“.

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Paulus Berensohn lives on in diadem book, interviews, a film realize his life and of compass his work.

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