Processions
Thursday, May 15 at 7pm
Atlanta Shambhala Center

Processions is a community engaging event that introduces unexpected and unexplored relations between sacred language, contemporary art and culture, and movement, chant, and social interactions. Using the resonant acoustics of the Shambhala’s campus, Processions builds from a series of projects reflecting on the concept of interbeing for a deeply moving evening of meditation movement, and reflection.

The evening draws from Siddhartha, She, a new ritual drama in seven tableaux loosely based on the novel Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, that addresses the spiritual journey of self – discovery. Composed by Christopher Theofanidis with a libretto by Alabama poet Melissa Studdard, the creative team is led by Robert Spano, music director laureate of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, with choreographies by Georgia social practice choreographer lauri stallings. stallings and Shambhala Center’s Sue Giman have known one another for a long time, and the two are inspired to co-collaborate at the Center to offer opportunities to explore the space where movement and sound unify and illuminate the human experience.

Siddhartha, She is a co-production of Aspen Music Festival, and Yale School of Theology, and will have its world premiere August 2, 2025 outdoors and under the Michael Klein Music Tent set alongside the Rocky Mountains of Aspen, Colorado.

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glo is an artist-led platform that choreographs environments to bring people together, and make the world better.

Atlanta Shambhala Center offers a path of meditation practice and contemplative arts oriented towards modern life.

lauri stallings’ choreography works as an expression of the becoming self, and embodied structures that map emotional movements. Whether inhabiting a forest of 80 acres, or confined to the surface of a beam of light, the origin of stallings’ art extends outwards from the primary projections of the feet and hands.

Free and public to all.