Tantra | Dominique Savitri Bonarjee

TANTRA transformation

Bodies, gravity, wind, air, water, breath, tarmac, concrete, forest, sand, dimensions variable.

In its root sense, Tantra means “to weave” or “to extend.” The tantras are the rituals that keep a cosmology alive.

Myth is a potent form of creative audacity — the yarn through which the unknown knowing emerges from the collective imaginal to find expression. Ritual is the process of shepherding that new information into the material world through physical practice.

My artistic position must emerge from beyond my conscious intention – a space of the nameless – and so, it must begin with an embodied commitment to the unknown — which is borne from repetition, recursivity, and duration. This is ritual: the practice that cares for the unknown as it emerges.

It requires care-full attention, to pace, dynamics, spontaneity, and the body’s subtle rhythms as the mechanisms of transformation. Tantra is the work of presence, improvisation which weaves moment to moment through movement, matter, and energy which takes shape as dances, public choreographies, pilgrimages, site-responsive gestures, and for both activators and witnesses, transformative experiences.