The name comes from a line in the prologue to Thus Spoke Zarathustra, section 5: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. Reading it, we thought at once of Matisse’s Dance. Bodies pulling each other, turning, spinning outward, as if they could no longer hold the life pouring out of them.
02 / 酒神的舞蹈 · Nietzsche
Dionysus’s Dance
Keep chaos within, to give birth to a dancing star.
After Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Prologue §5. Our paraphrase.
Pieces
Reading list
- Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Penguin, 2003.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Birth of Tragedy. Penguin, 2003.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil / On the Genealogy of Morality. Stanford UP, 2014.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Will to Power. Edited by Walter Kaufmann; translated by Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale. Vintage, 1968. Compiled from notebooks.
- Nietzsche, Friedrich. Anti-Education: On the Future of Our Educational Institutions. NYRB Classics, 2015.












