How can meditating on a goddess who has cut off, and is now holding, her own head, which is feeding on a stream of her own blood, whilst standing on the bodies of a young couple as they make love on a funeral pyre, lead us to the path of ultimate wisdom?
Mashing up performance, lecture and storytelling, Dr Seema Anand, journeys through cremation grounds, yogic practices, and death rituals, to decode the mysteries of the most fierce and most feared of Hindu goddesses - the Mahavidyas.
Expect life, death, creation, destruction and sacrifice, all in search of cosmic truth...
TICKETS: £10 / £8 concessions & members
SUITABLE FOR: adults 16+
RUNNING TIME: 75 mins, no interval
STARTS: 2.30pm
CONTENT WARNING: This performance includes references to sex, sexual practices, incest, murder, suicide and reincarnation, contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.
TICKETS: £10 / £8 concessions & members
SUITABLE FOR: adults 16+
RUNNING TIME: 75 mins, no interval
STARTS: 2.30pm
CONTENT WARNING: This performance includes references to sex, sexual practices, incest, murder, suicide and reincarnation, contextualised within a paradigm of mythic narrative, archetype and metaphor.