Ewan McGregor on the set of Trainspotting —1996

"The bowl was full of different types of chocolate. The set smelled really sweet — delicious, really, kind of like a confectionary. You could have licked the chocolate right off the bowl."
— Danny Boyle

“Shiva Nataraja, Lord of the Dance, sends pulsating waves of awakening sound through matter, thereby seducing it to life from lethargy. Matter dances, appearing round and round about him as an aureole of fiery emanations. Dancing, he creates and sustains the manifold phenomena of the universe; dancing he destroys by fire all forms and names and gives new rest:

His form is everywhere, all pervading…
Everywhere is Shiva’s gracious dance made manifest…
He dances with Water, Fire, Wind and Ether.
Thus our Lord dances ever in the court.”

The creator is seen as the ‘unmoved mover’ behind events in the cosmos, the still point round which everything must turn, simply because it holds its peace, encompassing both movement and perfect immobility. Rhythmic sound, in comsogonic myths, is at the root of all creation; and the gods are – or God is – the formulated power through which the life-force manifests itself. Truth, being beyond sound and rhythm, is the invisible divine centre round which all creation dances.
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The Roman second-century poet Lucian sees the dance as the beginning of creation: ‘With the creation of the universe the dance too came into being, which signifies the union of the elements. The round dance of the stars, the constellations of the planets in relation to the fixed stars, the beautiful order and harmony in all its movements, is a mirror of the original dance at the time of creation. The dance is the richest gift of the muses to man. Because of its divine origin it has a place in the mysteries and is beloved by the gods and carried out by men in their honour.’ (On the Dance)
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From Sacred Dance by M.G. Wosien
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Art: painting AE78 by Zdzislaw Beksinski’s. 1978.