The Ghetto Shaman: That Which Lurks in the Shadows

The Ghetto is a place where people, ideas, and concepts are confined to otherness, erasure, and exclusion. It is not only a physical location but a spiritual terrain—a realm that lives within all of us. It is where dreams, gifts, and the unwanted or unfaced emotions are buried and confined.

A shaman is a guide—one who can summon these disparate, fragmented aspects from the shadows and help them return to wholeness. They steward others through difficult encounters with what they may be unwilling—or unready—to face alone.

In The Ghetto Shaman: That Which Lurks in the Shadows, the shaman becomes a medium for the unfaced and fragmented parts of our collective psyche. These aspects emerge not only through the dancing body of the medium, but also the projected landscape that surrounds them. With the integration of projection mapping, this dance theater work transcends movement—it becomes a living visual invocation.

The Ghetto Shaman: That Which Lurks in the Shadows is a performance ritual that conjures themes of endurance, power, and transformation. The only way is through.