Zikr Dance Ensemble presents "Secrets" at Lakewood Cultural Center October 25

Zikr Dance Ensemble's 2024 Fall Season is entitled "Secrets". Highlighted on the program will be the world premiere of David Taylor's "Liturgies" and a newly expanded version of the stunning "Ripples In The Sand". Set to the electrifying Dune film score by Hans Zimmer, Ripples will feature new costumes and choreography and a breathtaking fabric canopy covering the entire stage. Also featured will be a reprise of audience favorite "Mobile", the iconic miniature masterpiece by former Ballet West and San Francisco Ballet choreographer Tomm Ruud. Rounding out this mesmerizing evening of contemporary, multi-media dance will be Taylor's "Altar", and "Oracle", a journey into the mysterious world of the ancient Greek Oracle of Delphi.

Zikr Dance Ensemble is a contemporary ballet company located on Colorado's Front Range. Currently celebrating its 15th Anniversary Season under the direction of Artistic Director and principal choreographer David Taylor, Zikr offers a spectrum of works that pay homage to transcendent dance rituals and metaphysical concepts from many different ancient world cultures throughout history. The company's original contemporary dance/theatre realizations are both dramatically engaging and educational and by exploring numerous ancient esoteric ideas through dance from all over the world, Zikr also promotes spiritual tolerance and multi-cultural understanding for the entire community. Zikr's international roster is comprised of world class dancers from all over the globe selected through two highly competitive annual auditions. The dances in performance are supplemented by stunning slide projections and visual effects, completing a multi-media experience that audiences and presenters alike have found to be both visually and artistically stunning as well as intellectually captivating and spiritually uplifting.

For the uninitiated, "Zikr" means, in short, the remembrance of God, and yet "remember" is too pale a word for zikr, which has acquired a large number of associations in sacred texts, especially Sufi literature. In its verbal signification it implies: to remember, to praise by frequently mentioning; to rehearse; to celebrate or commemorate; to make much of; to cherish the memory of as a precious possession. In Sufi devotions, zikr represents both a solemn ritual and a spiritual state of mind or heart, in which the devotee seeks to realize the presence of God. Thus there is zikr of the mind and zikr of the heart. For some, the one may lead to the other, but in many cases the two may be experienced simultaneously. There is also a subtler distinction, between the zikr that is open, and the zikr that is secret, corresponding to the two doors of the heart, that of the flesh and that of the spirit. It is this broader conceptualization of remembrance that drives ZIkr's Artistic Director to discover and create, and which is on display in all of ZIkr Dance Ensemble's productions.


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