Elena Ross first experienced the magic of Pan-Eu-Rhythmy during the Gaia Mind Project on January 23, 1997 at the University of Peace in Costa Rica. After dancing, a profound intuition said, "If every nation on Earth were to dance this, there could be no more wars." Elena and her husband Mark have been hosting or leading Pan-Eu-Rhythmy workshops ever since for personal and planetary transformation. Elena presented the movements as a harmonizing activity during the World Summit on Peace and Time at the University of Peace,Costa Rica, June 1999 and at the Effortless Prosperity Seminar, Hawaii October 1999, with Bijan Anjomi. She also assisted during the Maui Community College Extended Education workshop October 1997. She and Mark have danced with the Universal White Brotherhood in Bulgaria in 1997 and 1998 including at the Rila Mountain summer dance camp. They are following "Spirit" teaching the dance around the world and are ready to manifest "Arco Iris", an intention community base on universal love.

Pan-Eu-Rhythmy is a Bulgarian Sacred Dance of harmony. The gentle movements fired by solar energy align and heal all systems at a cellular, organic, mental and psychic level. It gives to our earth, the stars and planets. Your energies will be balanced and harmonized as your intention and movements bring you into alignment with the implicate order of all things.

Frederike Herrlich has always been interested in people and the secrets of healing. Her biggest question was to find out how people can live in harmony with themselves and within a community. Her family offered her the possibility to stidu theories and follow her own ideas. Noticing that laughter was missing from her life taught her to care for herself.

In 1992, her life changed completely when Aura-Soma brought pieces of her puzzle together. As an Aura-Soma practitioner and teacher it was her intention to bring the philosophy and practice together. She was the German coordinator running the information center, and worked together with her partner Roy Howsam since 1996 with the wish to develop a new concept for Germany. In 1998 she left Aura-Soma to create Love and Laughter: The Game of Smiles with Roy and to care for the ColourChild. This inspiration was received a few days before their visit Japan in October of that year, where Frederike and Roy were invited to become initiators of The Global Univer-City. So the idea was born to build bridges all over the world through love and laughter and the message of the ColourChild.

Demonstration: Love & Laughter - The Game of Smiles - with the ColourChild(R) Colour System

Love & Laughter - The Game of Smiles - with the ColourChild(R) Colour System offers a taste of the freedom of choice. It is for those who wish to playfully and laughingly create the new Millenium themselves and in harmony with others. Everybody can choose what they like and make their own rules. In this positive and humorous communication and sharing of life experiences, as Little Angels, Little Devils and Children of the World, everybody wins and nobody loses. A smile is the universal language understood all over the world and laughter the best medicine.

The ColourChild(R) Colour System helps us to gain a better and positive understanding of ourselves, our needs and wishes and our inner relationships. We learn to act consciously by integrating thoughts and feelings. Being in harmony and peace with ourselves opens the door for harmony in the family and peace in the world.

Love & Laughter - The Game of Smiles - and the ColourChild(R) builds bridges between men and women, generations and cultures. It renews our family bonds and brings the family together again.

Shizuno Nasu started learning classical ballet when she was 3, and was chosen as a Bolshoi Ballet international exchange participant at the age of 7. She started her activities as a pro dancer at the age of 19, and has performed at various venues all over Japan and around the world, including France, Italy, Greece, India, Korea, Germany and the US.

She currently resides in New York with her husband, who is a modern artist. She continues to expand her horizons of visual art and movement as a contemporary dancer. At the Summit, she will be performing with Tomoaki Kawakami and Ema & Eso.

Tomoaki Kawakami is a blacksmith and metal artist based in the Hokuriku area of Japan, where he has an atelier and showroom.

In 1979, he became attracted to the "primitive" act of striking iron, and this led him down the path of the blacksmith. He set up shop in 1986, and since then has produced various works (mostly candlestands) on the theme of "fire."

His works have been displayed at galleries all over Japan, and he has had joint exhibitions with artists of various genres including Sachiko Adachi, Mayumi Mori, Miyuki Hasekura, dye artist Hiroshi Saito, shikishi artist Daikei Tachibana and doll artist Shizuyo Ogawa.

He continues to the possibilities of his artform in the context of modern space design.

Ema & Eso is a musical duo composed of a member and former member of the Kaze no Gakudan (Wind Travelin Band).

Eso (left) is a composer, lyricist and vocalist who plays the piano and various traditional musical instruments. After formal study of jazz piano, musical theory and arrangement, he became interested in traditional instruments and taught himself to play many of them. His music has been used in theatre, traditional and modern dance, television and at various shrines and temples. In 1987 he performed with his group Silent Pulse at the Montreaux Music Festival and at present he continues his international activities as a member of the Wind Travelin Band.

Vocalist Ema (right) is also a composer and lyricist and plays the traditional chinese violin Er-hu and the lyre. Her distinctive vocal syle, combined with the sound of the Er-hu, creates a world of music that seems to transcend time and space. She joined the Wind Travelin Band in 1991 and performed with them in England, France, Greece and other venues. She left the band in 1996.