Empire of the Senses

The dance is a homage to nature and its beauty and shows how we need to immerse in with it.

Using Simon Carroll's time lapse images of the Australian wilderness and compiled by Jorg Hacker, Shakti becomes one with the images.  The desert, starry skies, clouds and thunderstorms and lightning shows the immense power of nature; it is time for us to realise its importance and learn how to treasure it and not destroy it. 

The show premiered in Edinburgh Fringe in 2002 and since then it has been performed in Montreal, Yokohama and Kyoto. 

"The effect is stunning when she walks into the desert and into the volcanos."  Ballet Magazine

"'The Empire of the Senses' is an ode to physical and spiritual ecstacy." The Scotsman