The body was never meant to be perfected or aestheticised.
It was meant to be lived.

Shaped by the moving tides, by our blood, by the earth’s seasons.
Cracked open by our stories, our songlines, our grief and our joy.

The Body as Altar is a four-day immersion where women are invited into a slower remembering - to return to their bodies as home and as something that belongs to the earth, rather than the gaze.

Through rites of passage, ceremony, and movement, we begin to trace the ways we have learned to locate our worth in the shape of our bodies. How we have adjusted, refined, and negotiated ourselves in order to be seen, chosen, and validated - and instead, descend into a deeper terrain of truth, returning to what lives beneath.

A collaboration between Eclectica Hub and Montana Lower, founder of InBluem - we merge embodied ritual work with self-devotional skincare across four ceremonial days together, to restore intimacy with the body as it is.

ONE MONTH ARTIST DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

Rites is an original ritual theater production that explores the human experience through seven gates of transformation, tracing the life cycles of descent, surrender, renewal and becoming.

Over the course of the One-Month Artist Development Programme participants will collaboratively devise, rehearse and perform an original work, bringing together movement, theatre, ritual and storytelling into a professionally staged public performance.