Gentle Reader,

This is a budding work in progress. It draws on anthropology, evolution, archaeology, comparative religion, linguistics, sexology, gender theory, neuroscience, performance studies, and media criticism. It isn't fundamentally academic writing. It's a multilevel performance that invites many dialogues. The scholarly side of the conversation now lives at Korazon Research.

The "Calling"

Teatro Korazon presented itself as an urgent mission in mid-2016…

Shamanism in human evolution

Evolution, like YouTube and democracy, is an emergent system…

The sexualized cosmology and pre-patriarchal archaeology

To be continued.

Towards a post-patriarchal tantra

To be continued.

Dreams of Atlantis

Plato first used the name in his dialogues…

A Theatre of Love to loosen the grip of Fear.

Teatro Korazon is a nonprofit "Theatre of Love" founded in Los Angeles, with headquarters in Kansas City. It challenges outdated models of gender, sexuality, and relationships to explore, envision, create, and model new possibilities. Drawing on anthropology, pre-patriarchal archaeology, contemporary theory, and neuroscience, it creates performances that range from ritual to comedic to erotic. Their aim is to heal the effects of domination, scarcity, and fear-based cultural models, and to invite a more loving, balanced, and harmonious post-patriarchal world.

Process

Visionary directors such as Jerzy Grotowski and Augusto Boal formed ensembles of talented performers who trained intensively together. Those ensembles proved fertile ground for new ways of being and communicating, and for culture-making performance. Teatro Korazon applies this model to love and sexuality, topics that are often marginalized and censored, to heal past trauma and inspire desire for a more loving world.

In memoriam

Teatro Korazon was founded six months after the death of Elizabeth Nell Reilly, the founder's fiancée, on February 16, 2016. She took the artist name Kora Hayes, an homage to Kore (Persephone) and Hades, and was willing to "go to the underworld to keep bringing back the Spring for others." Her spirit lives on through the company's work. See KoraHayes.com. Gifts to the Kora Fund support students in The Op-Ed Project's workshops.

An ensemble of performers, musicians, technicians, activists, visionaries, and academics.

Many of us have worked together for two decades, building a body of work that examines our shared past and future from historically informed, politically progressive, and spiritually engaged points of view.

To join, send a bio, a link, and a brief statement of interests to info@teatrokorazon.org.

How is gender socially symbolized? How can those symbols be deconstructed? What remains when we transcend them, and how can the answers inform transformative performance?

A five-day, co-created, immersive lab at the Historic Rieger Mansion in Kansas City, exploring gender through an embodied theatrical lens. Everyone takes part as both subject and scientist.

Who it's for

Performers, reformers, and researchers interested in how bodies, minds, and culture interact. Trans and gender-diverse people and trained performers are especially encouraged.

Organizers

Dawson Robert and Indigo Dawn (they/them), hosted by Christopher Fuelling (he/him) of Teatro Korazon and the SSSTaR Initiative.

Your gift goes directly into new work.

Teatro Korazon is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN 36-4847275), so donations are tax-deductible. Give by PayPal to donate@teatrokorazon.org.