“Deborah Rasa performs her poetry with panache,
irony and erotic energy, weaving together a subtle blend of queer
theology, monastic contemplative tradition and feminist sensibilities. Her's is an unusual and compelling voice.”
Dr. Nicola Slee, Research Fellow at the Queen's Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, Birmingham, UK.
“Wrapping
her audience in the warm embrace of eros Deborah RASA's thea-poetics
deeply challenge us to consider where lie those boundaries between
sacred and profane, east and west, love and desire, bodies and souls.
As her own body becomes the template through which she stages the
impossibility of such easy distinctions we are offered the rare
opportunity to experience an embodied divinity in and through the
feminine. In many ways Deborah is performing the spirit of a feminist
postmodernity.”
Sal Renshaw, Ph.D. Programs in Religions and Cultures and Gender
Equality & Social Justice Nipissing University, Ontario, Canada
“Deborah Rasa's Sexing the Divine,
is a moving, embodied piece of poetic performance, negotiating the
slippery boundary between the sacred and the profane. Drawing
creatively on a range of concepts from continental philosophers, Rasa's
performance beautifully combines lived sensuality, mystical revelation,
and divine spirituality in a way that touches and draws an audience
into intimate contact with her embodied words. In fact, she manages to
collapse the distinction between word and gesture: her body speaks and
her words gesture. Her work is both intellectually stimulating and
somatically engaging.”
Dr. Michelle Langford, Associate Lecturer, School of Media, Film and Theatre University of NSW, Sydney, Australia