Dancing with Spirit - Season 1 (2007)

"Passage" explores how passion and forces of this world influences oneself. Traditional native stories can parallel this inspiration bringing forth teachings and legends to the present time where ones own spiritual force and nature can become awaken. "Passage" is a journey of discovering and defining one's true self.

An exploration of spiritual connection to the land, Earth as a living organism, Earth as Mother, Earth as sacred. Four primal Beings journey from the Sky to touch the Earth. Each takes a path that leads them through an incredible journey of discovery and transformation. Moving through shape and form the dancers unite in ritual expression inhabiting the land of spirits, animal, plant and human. The dance is drawn from the Iroquoian Creation Story. The work embraces the belief that humans were originally Sky Dwellers who dream their existence on earth.

John Prophet is haunted by his past. His memories cloud each sleepless night and his waking hours. These memories are fractured articulations of his past, but John cannot make out the difference between the past and the present, between delusion and reality. John's exists and survival depends on his claims both to his past and his right to spiritual freedom in the present.