Wild Despair is a cathartic dance experience that gives permission to feel the profound heartbreak of our times and transform it into a powerful call for personal growth, collective action, and planetary healing.
Wild Despair
Wild Despair is a live performance, guided experience and film. The embodied art is designed to catalyze vulnerable dialogue around the most pressing challenges of our time.
Each presentation invites audiences and participants on a journey through ten emotions. The dance descends from denial through despair and into grief, where we encounter the universality of our humanity. In grief, a space beyond stories and sides, we are able to reawaken and spiral back up into acceptance, healing, and wholeness. Wild Despair reminds us that social change begins with feeling and healing ourselves, so we can show up in service to repair the living world.
The Live Performance
Wild Despair: The Live Performance is a 10-minute experience that transforms our sense of separateness into sacred, ineffable connection. Audiences are opened to the truth of their own emotional reality, leaving them better equipped to meet themselves—and our collective moment—with a deeper, more embodied sense of self. The performance is enriched by the music of Grammy-nominated musician and composer Camila Celin.
The Guided Experience
Wild Despair: The Guided Experience is a 45-to-90-minute dance journey that leads participants through their emotional depths, unlocking a transformative connection to themselves, their closest relationships, and the wider world. This cathartic experience leaves participants feeling connected with their bodies and better equipped to show up fully in their own lives and embrace who they came here to be.
The Film
Wild Despair: The Film spirals through one woman’s inner world in a cinematic, emotionally charged journey. Facing her deepest pain, she navigates the dance from heartbreak to healing by exploring the transformative power of meeting ourselves in the depths of grief, where we can transform our loss into love. The film is musically scored by Joel Shearer, Rotana, Odeya, and Boreta.
Host Wild Despair
Host Wild Despair as an embodied art experience, either as standalone elements or a bespoke program designed to cultivate coherence and spark dialogue at your event, conference, or gathering. By inviting participants into their bodies and allowing them to safely and vulnerably connect with personal pain and the collective heartbreak of our world, we create the conditions for more effective conversations and problem-solving, with active hope and our shared humanity at the center.
