Walking the Kora
Inspired by the Tibetan practice of “kora”, a walk of reflection and meditation, Walking the Kora transforms the tradition into an immersive walking performance led by Tibetan youth blending live audio & participatory encounters to explore the Tibetan Buddhist concept of Tongpa-nyid, emptiness.
Emptiness is the middle way between two extremes. Things exist, but not independently. A person, a place, a feeling: none of these arise on their own, they emerge from conditions. To see emptiness is to see that interdependence clearly.
A spiritual successor to Enter the Gorshey, Walking the Kora features Toronto’s Tibetan youth, while also folding in some of the senior comedians from Die Laughing in an intergenerational and intercultural exploration of what these key themes mean and how they resonate in everyday context, in a city that is home to one of the largest Tibetan populations outside of Asia.
