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The Sacred Ritual

We focus on contemporary performing art practices linked to ceremonies, shamanic rites, spiritual beliefs, healing, the life cycle, political power, social cohesion, and personal identity. We explore how rituals embody and activate myths through dramatic and choreographic transformative devices, and how contemporary artists appropriate and traverse traditional boundaries between performance art, ancient rites, shamanic action, transcendental experiences, and myths. We expand the range and breadth of the understanding of ritual, transcendence and immanence of the sacred, experience group creativity and feel the power of collective action.
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Texts, extracts:
  • Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart: “Shamanic Performances: Issues of Performativity and Comparison”, 2008
  • Ismene A. King: “The Influence of Ritual in Performance Art: A Retrospective and Correlational Analysis.”, 2014
​​Photos: © Cserna Endre,  2018.

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  • Home
  • GRAY BOX
    • Manifesto
    • People
    • CV
    • Contact
    • Audition
  • Performance
    • Black Box >
      • Right for Fight
      • sorry not sorry: Second book
      • Crisis before Crisis
      • MÖBIUS
      • Who is the boss?
      • UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA
      • CLASH
      • Secret Garden
      • sorry not sorry: First book
      • Picnic in Eden
      • No hook-ups only serious
    • White Cube >
      • Dreams are my reality
      • Air is in the Love
      • Heavenly Foreplay: Song of Senses II.
      • Dirty Dancing Girl Power II.
      • Confessions: Coming OUT!
      • Heavenly Foreplay: Song of Senses
      • Passion. Fan behaviour. Love.
      • Over 18
      • Sex, Love, Tenderness
      • Landscape, Action!
      • Dirty Dancing Girl Power
      • Replay! Remix! Remake!
      • The First Kiss
      • Feminine-Masculine
      • Try On/Out!
      • Memory-Starters
      • The Fitting Project
    • Outdoor >
      • ​The Master and Margarita
      • Israel Us!
      • Do you remember when...?
    • Catwalk
  • Education
    • School of Disobedience
    • UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA Summer Training
    • Research Lab >
      • Impossible desires
      • Fear and the Unknown
      • Who is the boss
      • Climata
      • Ritual
      • UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA Lab
    • Workshop >
      • Engedetlenség Leányiskolája
      • The Queer show must go on
      • sorry not sorry
      • SIGN IN
      • Performing Drawing
      • Jaqui Taboo's Fashion Show
      • Environmental Posthumanities
      • The Sacred Ritual
      • Garden Party
      • Public/Private & Intimate/Shared
      • An Introduction
      • Performing fashion
      • Body, Identity, Society
      • Interactive and Participative Systems
      • Amour, Fragments
      • The Bad Taste
      • Choreographic poetry
      • Displays
      • Movement Memory
      • ​Curating performance & Choreographing exhibition
      • Recycling the Memory
    • Fight Club
    • Just do it!
    • ArtFitness
    • JAM-LAB
  • Platform