Gentle Glory
2025
Gentle Glory explores gentleness, empathy, and our profound interconnectedness with nature. This deeply personal work reflects on my experience navigating C-PTSD and how attunement to Mother Earth fosters ease and nervous system regulation amidst a chaotic world. Through contemporary dance, music, and poetry, I investigate themes of adaptation, evolution, and sentient intelligence, drawing parallels between human healing and the wisdom of the natural world.
Over the past few months, Rachel has been immersed in research for her new solo work, Gentle Glory, during an artistic residency in Argentina. This piece delves into gentleness, empathy, and our deep interconnectedness with nature.
We’re thrilled for the opportunity Alvin Erasga Tolentino has given us to further explore and share our work-in-progress at Co.Erasga’s Studio Salon Series – Spring 2025.
Join us on March 29th at 5 PM at What Lab (1814 Pandora Street, Vancouver)! Tickets Here!
Collaborators
Concept, Direction & Performer:
Rachel Helten
Composer & Musician:
Ben Helten
In research at Planta Inclan residency, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Music: Thom Yorke – Unmade
We would like to express our deepest and sincere appreciation to our funders, partners, volunteers and supporters who made this project possible.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered and are creating on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples–Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.