Temple of Desire
Fresh from award-winning, sold-out seasons in Melbourne and Toronto, 20 dancers beckon us into a visually stunning world of beauty and desire. Drawing from their training in the classical Indian dance form of Bharatanātyam, they rediscover a pre-colonial world where the divine and the sensual unite with splendour and power. A celebratory world where pleasure and joy (കാമ / kāma) are not forbidden but are pathways to liberation (മോക്ഷ / mōksha). Anchored in a moving acknowledgement of tradition, colonial loss, and gendered oppression, Temple of Desire is an uplifting journey that embraces alternative histories and liberatory futures. Teeming with tradition, yet subversive and unbound, it leads us to a place of beauty, euphoria, joy and deeper human understanding. Sumptuous and unapologetically queer, Temple of Desire is performance as resistance: intimate, urgent, and alive with beauty and joy. On closing night, the performance flows into "Temple of Desire: The After Party" featuring DJ Goddess Naavikaran, bathing the Sydney Opera House foyer in remixes of pop, Carnatic, Bollywood, and deconstructed club. This celebration invites performers and the audience for collective liberation. This production by Karma Dance Inc. builds on a decade of acclaimed, boundary-shifting dance, including *In Plain Sanskrit* (2015), *Bent Bollywood* (2018), *Third Nature* (2018), *Kāla* (2019), *Narasimha* (2022), and *Mōhini* (2023).
- Date
- Thursday 4 June 2026
- Time
- 19:30:00 – 20:20:00
- Venue
- Opera House Concert Hall
- Address
- Bennelong Point, Sydney NSW 200, Australia
- Suburb
- Sydney
- Price
- $69.50 - $88.50
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Vibes: queer, performance art, euphoric, lgbtqi, cultural
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Temple of Desire
Opera House Concert Hall
Price
From $69.50
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Fresh from award-winning, sold-out seasons in Melbourne and Toronto, 20 dancers beckon us into a visually stunning world of beauty and desire. Drawing from their training in the classical Indian dance form of Bharatanātyam, they rediscover a pre-colonial world where the divine and the sensual unite with splendour and power. A celebratory world where pleasure and joy (കാമ / kāma) are not forbidden but are pathways to liberation (മോക്ഷ / mōksha). Anchored in a moving acknowledgement of tradition, colonial loss, and gendered oppression, Temple of Desire is an uplifting journey that embraces alternative histories and liberatory futures. Teeming with tradition, yet subversive and unbound, it…
leads us to a place of beauty, euphoria, joy and deeper human understanding. Sumptuous and unapologetically queer, Temple of Desire is performance as resistance: intimate, urgent, and alive with beauty and joy. On closing night, the performance flows into "Temple of Desire: The After Party" featuring DJ Goddess Naavikaran, bathing the Sydney Opera House foyer in remixes of pop, Carnatic, Bollywood, and deconstructed club. This celebration invites performers and the audience for collective liberation. This production by Karma Dance Inc. builds on a decade of acclaimed, boundary-shifting dance, including *In Plain Sanskrit* (2015), *Bent Bollywood* (2018), *Third Nature* (2018), *Kāla* (2019), *Narasimha* (2022), and *Mōhini* (2023).
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Opera House Concert Hall, Sydney
Time
7:30 PM – 8:20 PM
Price
From $69.50
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Status
Event Ended
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