“Khecari”: moving in the void, dancing in the abyss; khecari is the act of creation.

From chaos, form arises; from darkness, light. We are meaning-making creatures, inescapably and unconsciously creating in every moment of our lives. When we dive into the abyss by choice, enter consciously the maze of the Minotaur, we turn passion into fuel for living and become artists.
Khecari Dance Theatre probes the liminal realms of paradox: union dissolves to isolation, anguish burns to rapture; for paradox holds as its treasure transformation. Khecari explores our relationship to the Earth, to each other. The pull of gravity is the pull of love. We resist, we release; we will and surrender. This is the dance of our lives and the dance on stage. Through shimmering, shifting presence, through movement fluid as water, still as earth, explosive as fire, we present as an offering a sublime vision of possibilities.
Movement is our primordial expression and our first lens with which to examine the world. When our adult hand reaches back through time and grasps the tiny infant’s, when those bewildered and awed eyes meet our sad and wise ones: this, then, is dance. Let us wed the lost years. Let us dance.

“The air around him breathes something animalistic, primordial, with an appeal to the human condition. He is the Rainer Marie Rilke of movement poets, a man deeply fascinated by the possibility of peace and generosity in our troubled times… a man unafraid to delve into the investigation of the many sides of the human condition and the consequences of not doing so.”
“Particularly stunning was the solo by Meyer…. [He is] a soloist of virtuosity and heart.”
“Herein lies much of what Meyer wants to communicate on the stage in Rapture: a sense of the inner journey, the search for the dark and light within each soul, the struggle that brings the person further on a spiritual path of their own choosing…. Meyer’s intent was well laid out in the choreography.”
“Meyer has the ability to suspend time… he seems to contort into a shape absolutely not human and then be able to morph that into something the soul can recognize.”
- Donna Jewell, Attitude: The Dancers’ Magazine, Spring 2005

“Somehow it reflected real life to me with all its beauty, sadness, cruelty, love…”
“Soft-core porn dance for Harlequin romance readers.”
- Audience response from Dance Space Center, NYC

“Jonathan Meyer’s choreography vibrates with a lucid, muscular physicality. Exploring a vulnerable range of motion balanced at the brink of danger, this sexy androgine has a gift for passionate, heart-centered movement that challenges our notion of conventional dance vocabulary.” - Scott Lundius, Director, Taos Dance

“His work reveals the blood, sweat, and tears of relationships and physicality.” - Albuquerque Journal North

“Risk-taking dance theater.” - Taos News

Khecari Dance Theatre was founded in January 2002 by artistic director Jonathan Meyer.

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