PHILADELPHIA, PA: Amber Hongsermeier presents "ANIMA"
Company:
Amber Hongsermeier
The anima is an archetypal figure playfully flitting at the edges of the male’s unconscious self and referencing the psychic life of man. "ANIMA" researches the physical embodiment of the feminine shaped under the male gaze within contemporary patriarchal structures. This cast of female-identifying collaborators explores the psychosomatic expression of the divine feminine incarnate, oscillating between sensual, soulful, animating, and underlying. Utilizing a praxis-based approach to the movement inspired by feminine archetypal images, "ANIMA" conjures itself from man's psyche to become a reality.
Mythical figures, alchemy, ancestral knowledge, and the corporeality of the human experience exemplify the chthonic nature placed on the feminine that is lacking within Western culture's masculine. Swaths of fabric, singing bowls, flow art apparatuses, and light projection heighten the experience and observance of ritual performance. "ANIMA" reveres and consecrates the feminine into consciousness by extricating itself from the primordial projections of the male unconscious.
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