I was drawn to this monk’s journey because historically, there were 54 monks who had attempted this same journey and had not succeeded in making it back alive. I had this image in my mind of this monk walking through the Gobi Desert, seeing the footprints of those who had gone before him and feeling that he had been there before. Then I thought, ‘What if it was the same monk life after life after life… trying to reach this destination?’ That is how “Samsara” was born—from this idea of the wheel, this cycle of life and death and breaking free to attain this spiritual realization.
Pig Ghosts and the Irish Renaissance
Oona Doherty is a choreographer that increasingly needs no introduction. The London-born Belfast native, who worked as a dancer across Europe, roared onto the scene as a choreographer with her solo work “Hope Hunt and the Ascension into Lazarus,” a searing examination of masculine culture that had the contemporary dance world abuzz.
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