Avatara
Bass Church, with the Ascenders, on the Water Day main stage
Trust as creation: a church you dance in, where everyone on stage lifts each other up.
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What Avatara carried
She calls her performance artists Ascenders, "because we are truly here to lift one another up with community," and the set lived the name: a rapper, a singer, a poet, wings and fans, and a floor singing the call back, until the whole company took one bow. The poem she shared with the poet in white landed the teaching. It's real because we trust.
- Bass Church (a dance gathering held as church)
- DJ set with live performance artists (the Ascenders)
- spoken invitation and prayer between songs
- call-and-response
- spoken-word poetry (shared)
In their own words
“How many of you guys are choosing into trust in this moment? When we move towards our bigger purpose … trust is our number one ally, it's our number one cheerleader, and it's always there to support you on your journey”
“To believe it before you see it. Not the other way around … And the next step along this journey is to give yourself permission.”
“This song is dedicated for those moments when it gets really hard, and yet we choose to dive back in.”
“We call our performance artists our Ascenders, because we are truly here to lift one another up with community … Again, I am Avatara and we are the Ascenders. Take a bow.”
Said from the stage
“We don't trust because it's real. It's real because we trust.”
The set, song by song
25 songs, in the order they were played. Each one plays here as it premieres.The set · 1:32:11
What Avatara is up to in the world
Avatara is a multidimensional performance artist: DJ, producer, singer, rapper and fire dancer, who calls her music a ministry. She DJs and leads Bass Church, a monthly bass music experience in Austin, Texas that joins movement, music and community.
For you, Avatara
Thank you for what you brought to the Love Dimension. This page is our gift back to you: the words you gave us, the films cut from your time on stage, and the frames caught while weaving through it all.
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