World Premiere.

Oracle Portals is a co-created performance which embodies stories derived from both cultural and personal experiences. Combining knowledge systems to expand on the meaning and  power of storytelling and the connections and contradictions within our human kinships creates a tapestry of difference as unity.

Interweaving dance, song, oration, and embodiment the stories shared re-enact themes such as: traditional origin stories, departures and arrivals, mother/daughter connections, liberation despite oppression, confronting disgust in juxtaposition of deep love and care for humanity and the planet, and using the method of Storyweaving (taught by Monique Mojica and Spiderwoman Theatre NYC) to give reference to our sovereign human nature. Storytelling resurrects honesty and calls back the spirit of the true self. Being witnessed and held by a council of creatrix and ancient stones respond to past, present and future understandings of the meaning of life, prophecy and opens portals severed by colonialism and patriarchy.

Accessibility:
The Accessibility Guide & Visual Story for The Metro Studio can be found here.
Free tickets for Indigenous community can be booked online.

About the company: 
Visible Bodies Collective  is a multidisciplinary embodiment practice grounded within global Indigenous ways and knowing and being. This shared collective of knowledge keepers engages in training, creation, and performance; with an emphasis on somatic processing and structured improvisation. Our mission as a collective is to establish a collective process of working that expresses concepts of: Indigenous epistemologies, spirituality, social and political justice, land-based dramaturgy, cultural resurgence, embodiment as revitalization of ancestral knowledge through traditional and contemporary dance and movement practice. We engage the body as the main vehicle of political expression addressing among other things: social issues, intergenerational and ancestral healing- our underlying desire is for transformation, and connection back to the teachings of mother earth, universal laws of nature and our sovereign bodies. We gather for restoration and nourishment of our spirits; mending past, present and future, weaving story, rhythm, and our natural abilities and intuition to orate our diverse worldviews.