In this workshop, Tony Yap will direct you into specific stages and modes of trance with an attention to ‘becoming animal.’

Tony adopts specific inductions into deep-trance which are traversed from three Asian traditions: the Daoist shamanistic temple practices from Melaka, Malaysia; the Bantengan bull trance rituals in Batu, East Java; and the royal court dance of Bedoyoof Yogyakarta, Central Java in Indonesia.

We will explore some of the ways in which the term "emptiness" is understood in Daoism: specifically as a zone of spatial consideration for trance forms: “The great square has no corners”.