Dance show directed and performed by Anya Deva and "The GoddessHerself Dance Theatre".
Contact: Phone 347 837 2848 e-mail: anyadeva@yahoo.com
Length: 30 min
Sinopsis: This show is related to sexuality and gender, it explores aspects of the mystery of the absolute feminine, the Goddess. It serves to bring understanding and acceptance of the inner feminine to both men and women and to dissolve issues related to being feminine. During the show, we see the Goddess unfolding in her diversity as different stages of life: She is the Death in form of witchy and crazy old crown; Beautiful innocent youth, the Virgin. She discovers and becomes Love magnetic with her beauty, who becomes Desire, the Sex Goddess; Than she realizes this is the desire to Create and she becomes the Mother of the world. And finally, we see that all the above are the aspects of The Woman with her many faces , who is the part of every person as Kundalini energy. The music, costumes, voice and movement all serve to bring very strong impact on the audience, making them one with the performer and the Goddess, the ultimate feminine.
The feedback of the "Aspects of Absolut Feminine", based on Hindu pantheon of Goddesses and Shakti, creative power of the Universe.
Act 1
Dim stage with red flashes. Primordial drumming and chanting music in a background. Tree dancers dressed in tight black body suits, jumping like the servants of Satan, or the Shiva, the destroyer. carrying long red banners in hands doing a chaotic dance. This is the earth in the stage destruction. The images of Kali, Durga, matricas and other blood thirsty goddesses appear as a slide show, moving around, first to the stage, on the dancers and than to the audience (making the audience a part of the process) An old crown in rags slowly comes to the stage, carrying a walking stick in her hands. She is doing spells and strange movements invoking the spirits of the dead. In her ritual dance, she is hobbling to the middle of the stage, through the shadows of dancers, stops and screams:
-Death!…. I Am Death!!!- and she stomples her stick against the ground. At this moment complete darkness and silence falls to the stage, dancers disappear.
Act 2
New music emerges from the silence: the music of spring (Solitudes, Sounds of nature) A single white beam of light falls to the place where the crown stood. We see how she slowly unfolds, become straight, her rags fall in the ground and young beautiful maiden appear. She stands straight and relaxed, with her chin slightly up. Slowly she falls on her knees, and , circling her torso, says:
-I thought it's death, but it's love!
The images of Sarasvati and Primavera, appear as a transparent slide show, falling on the dancer and moving towards the audience, covering them. Beams of white light flying in the air. She does the dance of pure love that has ballet motifs. This dance becomes more and more ecstatic and sexual, and the white lights become red.
Act 3
Music: flamenco. Red flashes of light.
- I though it's love, but it's desire!
The images of Laxmi and Aphrodite appears on the stage and moving towards the audience. Dancer takes off her white dress and reveals the red one. She dance a dance of seductress, the middle East music and a belly dancing motifs. She is exploring her body with her movements, and this dance becomes more and more erotic and the desire arouses in her. Three male dancers appear on the stage, dressed in tight bodysuits, she dance to seduce them, she dance like a stripper now for the male. The erotic dance between four of them now looks more like an orgy, the red dress goes off, she is wearing body colored bikini and bra, making her look naked.
Song: Beast in the cage, or "I want to fuck you like an animal" by Nine Inch Nails The tree men serving her like a sex slaves, she holds a whip in her hands.
Act 4
She says:
-This is desire... to create!
She drops her whip, embracing her pregnant womb, the center of creation. All her creative energy is concentrated here. It is dance of new life, she wrap her body in long red again. The images of Madonna with a child, Mother Mary with Christ, any mother with a child appear as a slide show.
Music :"The storm of five elements"
She says:
I am death and I am life
I am the light I am the darkness
I am whore and I am the holy one
I am the giver and I am the taker
I am the Goddess.
I am the woman.
The End.