The Tantric Shaman – A musical dance piece.

Historically, sexual energy has been a perceived threat to societies which have in turn suppressed this natural source of human freedom, even criminalizing it. The Tantric Shaman tells one such story of oppression out of innumerable others, portraying the sacred work of a healer seeking to help men trust and love through channeling sexual energy, his brutal arrest and detention by the police, and the seeds of awareness planted in an undercover cop after releasing his clench on control for just a few moments. The piece relies heavily on dynamic physical movement, music, and film projections to carry the narrative and pose questions to the audience. The theater will be cleansed and transformed as the Tantric Shaman journeys to his spirit animal and begins a tantric shamanic session. This vast inner world is then shattered, but only temporarily, as the Tantric Shaman is detained but reborn. In a society polarized by oppressors and the oppressed, The Tantric Shaman ultimately celebrates the connections the can always occur between individuals and the constant presence of potential freedom underlying every human act that we take.