Pre-dating language as we know it now, the ritual and performance practices depend on energy exchange and total commitment to the spirit. A call to the dance needing no words, sensitive to the unique temporary collective of audience gathered in the space in the present moment, and as well engaging as a musical response to architecture, to the acoustic and energetic properties of a specific space. Six drummers and one conductor create a circle of energy inviting the audience to lose control and surrender to the pulses and rhythm. 

Nathan Fuhr's Demonshaker explores in what way one is operating in the given space. 
The audience can enter an alternative frame of perception through music and dance. The experience has been described as a provocation of purification available to everyone present, a multitude of me’s surrendered to the we, and a monolithic experience in the physicality of sound– sound as bath, sound as massage, sound as weapon, sound as catharsis. This is an offering, in which the public is welcome to move freely throughout the performance, and the centre of the circle is undefined open space, which has revealed itself in performances to be a nest for immersive listening, dance, trance.  Any audience reaction to the intensity of the sound (including leaving) is respected as synergy and cherished without judgement. Participation in this theatrical ritual gives an opportunity for anyone to become an artist  - the spirit is something that will shake you.

Demonshaker alters the audience's ways of being and knowing, inspiring them to be fully human. Its philosophical context lies in the celebration of life - the movement and change. 


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