Rachna Nivas’ newest work-in-progress personifies the dark and mystical realm of tantra and its radical hailing of supreme feminine power – transcendent knowledge of non-duality that liberates only through full submersion into her wholeness. She is intoxicating and terrifying, ascetic and erotic, loving and rageful. She is the force that binds us and the force that sets us free.

Through kathak dance, live music, special lighting and set design, this work will haunt, provoke, and enchant while illuminating a woman’s treacherous path to transforming her shadows and reclaiming her wild limitless nature.

Original musical score composed by Jayanta Banerjee

Featuring live musical artists:
Jayanta Banerjee, sitar
Jay Gandhi, bansuri flute
Satyaprakash Misra, tabla
Jake Charkey, cello

Purchase Tickets: https://www.wolftrap.org/calendar/performance/2223barns/0225show23.aspx

Rachna Nivas’ newest work-in-progress personifies the dark and mystical realm of tantra and its radical hailing of supreme feminine power – transcendent knowledge of non-duality that liberates only through full submersion into her wholeness. She is intoxicating and terrifying, ascetic and erotic, loving and rageful. She is the force that binds us and the force that sets us free.

Through kathak dance, live music, special lighting and set design, this work will haunt, provoke, and enchant while illuminating a woman’s treacherous path to transforming her shadows and reclaiming her wild limitless nature.

Original musical score composed by Jayanta Banerjee

Featuring live musical artists:
Jayanta Banerjee, sitar
Jay Gandhi, bansuri flute
Satyaprakash Misra, tabla
Jake Charkey, cello

Purchase Tickets: https://www.wolftrap.org/calendar/performance/2223barns/0225show23.aspx

I had been traveling for a long time, not knowing where I was going. At times I felt lost, unsure of why I was traveling at all. At times I felt weary. One day, I felt it. A hint of a destination. Clarity passed through me for the briefest of moments. Hungry, I chased it. But it was gone and I felt lost and weary all over again. I had tasted hope, so I kept me going. And then it happened. Slow and fast. The truth unfurled inside of my very being. Awe and sorrow engulfed me. There it was; There she was. Within me and here all along. The destination; Devi. The mystery and potency that is the earth. The water that gives life and purifies. The fire that gives warmth. The fire that destroys. Death that gives life. Life that embraces death. Devi. She is me. I am her. 

Purchase Tickets: https://counterpulse.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0S4y00000E5XurEAF

I had been traveling for a long time, not knowing where I was going. At times I felt lost, unsure of why I was traveling at all. At times I felt weary. One day, I felt it. A hint of a destination. Clarity passed through me for the briefest of moments. Hungry, I chased it. But it was gone and I felt lost and weary all over again. I had tasted hope, so I kept me going. And then it happened. Slow and fast. The truth unfurled inside of my very being. Awe and sorrow engulfed me. There it was; There she was. Within me and here all along. The destination; Devi. The mystery and potency that is the earth. The water that gives life and purifies. The fire that gives warmth. The fire that destroys. Death that gives life. Life that embraces death. Devi. She is me. I am her. 

Purchase Tickets: https://counterpulse.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0S4y00000E5XurEAF