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Video 1

2B Gallery, Budapest, HU, 2016.
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https://youtu.be/h0lZRB9uVeY
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Video 2

OZORA Festival, HU, 2016.

https://youtu.be/-c4Q0NYeb6A

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Érzékek Éneke
Rituálé performansz

Hossz
- 20-30min / szeánsz
- A performanszot egy este folyamán többször megismételjük egymás után, hogy a lehető legtöbb néző átélhesse az előadást.

Közönség
- Gyerekek
- Felnőttek

Song of Senses
Ritual performance

Length
- 20-30min / session
- The performance is repeated in row several times during the evening so as to a maximum of people can experience it.

​Public
- Children
- Adults



Script
[Magyar] 

Script
[English] 

  • ​​A térben annyi széket installálunk, ahány néző regisztrált az előadásra. Kétfős “székcsoportokat” alkotunk, ahol egy szék egy székkel van szemben. A szék-párok egymástól megfelelő távolságban vannak. Fontos, hogy megfelelő távolságban legyen a két szék, és ne érjenek össze a nézők.
  • A tér közepébe teszünk egy nagy asztalt. Terítővel lefedjük, és egy esztétikusan installált kompozícióba rakjuk össze az eszközöket (fűszerek, bor, balzsam, étel, ital, gyümölcs, méz…).
  • Kinnt gyülekeznek a nézők.
  • Amikor az összes néző megérkezett, kimegyünk értük. Megkérjük őket, hogy kapcsolják ki a telefonjukat. Egyesével beengedjük őket a galériába, de még az ajtóban mindenkinek bekötjük a szemét.
  • Leültetjük a nézőket egy székbe.
  • Megvárjuk, amig lelkileg és megékeznek. A vállukra tesszük a kezünket.
  • Megszólal a gong majd elkezdődik a zene.
  • Egyszerre kezdünk: Megmossuk lassan, langyos illatos vízzel a kezüket.
  • Ezután minden performer úgy “kényezteti” és öltözteti a vengédét, ahogy szeretné. Fontos, hogy a gesztusokkal a néző összes érzékszervére hassunk (illatok, ízek, textúrák, hangok, neszek, érintések...).
  • 20 perc után elhallgat a zene.
  • Egyszerre levesszük a szemükről a kendőt. Megvárjuk amig “magukhoz térnek”. Fülükbe súgjuk az instrukciót, hogy vegyék le párjukról a jelmezeket. Mi a háttérbe vonulunk.
  • Megszólal a zene. A vendégek vetkőztetik egymást.
  • 5-10 perc után elhallgat a zene. A performansznak vége. Kinyitjuk az ajtót, odamegyünk hozzájuk.
  • The space counts as many chairs as the public. We create two-chairs blocs, in which there is one chair face to another. The distance between the chairs is not more than a meter, just enough for the people to sit comfortably one face to the other without touching each other.
  • ​In the middle of the space, there is a huge table, with a composition made up of spices, vine, balm, food, drink, fruits, honey, flavored water… All of these elements will be used as props in the performance.
  • The public is gathering outside the space. A performer welcomes one visitor only. He/she blindfolds his/her eyes. By paying attention to where he/she steps, the performer guides him/her to a chair, and makes him/her sit down face to someone he/she doesn’t know.
  • We are standing behind our unique visitor, putting our two hands on their shoulders, and waiting for the other visitors to arrive.
  • When every visitor has arrived, there is a gong which marks the beginning of the performance. The live music starts (live music with 2 cello players or playback music of J.S. Bach: Cello Suites No.1-6 (Ralph Kirshbaum)
  • We wash their hands with a scarf tenderly, smoothly, slowly.
  • Starting from this, every performer is free to improvise with the tools disposed on the central table. We take care or our visitor, we offer to him/her food, make them smell fragrances (spices, vine...), experiment with different textures (cream, oil, balm, fur, objects…), we put different fabrics on him/her (sheer cloth, organza, lace, tulle, silk…), and continue to whisper in their ears extracts from our text
  • ​After 20 minutes the music stops. We take off the scarf from their eyes.
  • We ask our visitor to take off the garments and textiles which cover the person facing them. We quit the space, the music starts again, visitors are taking off the fabrics of their pairs.
  • After 5-10 minutes the music stops. The performance ends. We join our visitor, and initiate a short discussion about their experience, their feelings.


Koncepció
[Magyar] ​

Concept
[English] ​

Az “Érzékek Éneke” egyszerre performansz és sámánikus rituálé egyben, melyben az előadók a legősibb és legösztönösebb gesztusaikra hivatkozva egy törzsi szertartásra emlékeztető ördögi lakomában részesítik a mindvégig bekötött szemű nézőt. A minden érzékszervére ható ingerektől, suttogástól, szagoktól, ízektől, transzcendens zenétől, simogató kezektől és rózsaolaj-illatú kényeztetéstől a néző egyfajta örvénylő hipnotikus extázisba kerül, amit már csak a rávarázsolt rituális jelmez felfedezése tud fokozni. A multiszenzoriális, immerzív, interaktív, egyszerre egyedi és messzemenően személyes élményt garantáló előadás újragondolja az előadó-befogadó viszonyt, párhuzamot von a beavató színház és a beavató szertartás között, és a közösségi interaktív előadást egyfajta kollektív energiákból táplálkozó rituális performanszként értelmezi. 
Az “Érzékek Éneke” gyerekeknek és felnőtteknek egyaránt kikapcsolódás és belső utazás.
In “Song of Senses”, we mix contemporary visual art, performing art, religious and pagan ritual practices linked to ceremonies, shamanic rites, spiritual beliefs, caring and healing. We explore how rituals embody and activate myths through dramatic and choreographic transformative devices, and how we can appropriate and traverse traditional boundaries between performance art, ancient rites, shamanic action and transcendental experiences to develop a new understanding of transmission and to make the public achieve transcendence in a contemporary profane context, in which emotion and sentiments replace dogma. Through an immersive experience, we expand the range and breadth of the understanding of transcendence and immanence of the sacred, make the public experience a unique multisensory ritual and feel the power of collective action.

Since its earliest treatment, transmission (of knowledge, religion, traditions…) has been linked to ritual practice, in which the conditions are generated by exciting feelings of collective effervescence. With classical music, whispers, slow gestures recalling a church service, the performance engages the audience in an internal struggle between individual and group identity, and reflects on the French sociologist Émile Durkheim’s writings, for who “collective representations (...) express collective realities; the rites are a manner of acting which take rise in the midst of the assembled groups and which are destined to excite, maintain or recreate certain mental states in these groups.” By using a set of props having strong symbolic meanings (fig/sinfulness, pomegranate/fertility, apple/temptation…), the performance is also a reaction to the symbolic and interpretive anthropology of Victor Turner, exploring the relationship between representations and forms of embodied experience and emotion. For him, “communion provides the context in which ritual participants are particularly receptive to the messages inherent in ritual symbolism”. In “Song of Senses”, the public is blindfolded, and the absence of delineated spatial, temporal and social spaces induce them in a heightened state in which they follow the rituals being enacted and guided by the lecture of extracts from the “Song of Songs”. Through reading this text to his/her audience, the performer confers to his/her spectator the role of the “admired”, the “beloved”, celebrates all kinds of love (without regard to the age, gender, race, national origin of his/her visitor), and responds to the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz’s idea, for who “rituals are a form of text which can be read. They are a way of “saying something of something” through objects and actions as well as words, and the feelings or “ethos” that rituals generate make the conceptions of a given culture’s religion more compelling”.
By removing the performance “fourth wall” and blending performer and audience spaces, the performance is able to create an immersive experience with a minimal array of set design and props other than chairs and a table. The space in which the performance happens is understood as a three-dimensional narrative environment, enacting a joyful “Last Supper” or a sort of twisted dinner party from hell, both an ephemeral installation and a medium in itself, that makes use of an interconnected set of objects, but whose specificity is given by its historical, symbolical, sensory and spatial dimension.

Artistic intention

“Song of Senses”, a 30 minute ritual is a multisensory, interactive, immersive experience which may subject you to complete darkness, scents, flavours, noises and physical contact.” - said a spectator about the performance.
In the form of a total artistic interactive and immersive experience, in “Song of Senses” we create social and spatial contexts, develop new forms of collective aesthetics based on interactivity, participation, connection, and physical presence. Situated between relational aesthetic, forgotten rituals and magical practices, “Song of Senses” allows the participants to immerse themselves in a hybrid space, step from a “classic” spectatorship to a co-author of the art work (depending on how actively they want to interact with the performers and/or with other participants), or even becoming the artwork itself. Through this dispositif, our objective is to:
  • Challenge the traditional performer/spectator relationship ; 
  • Allow the spectators to immerse themselves in the performance and gain a more intensive and personal experience, based on human contact, closeness, intimacy, and connectivity ; 
  • Promote public engagement, generate new forms of interaction(s) and aesthetics of relations with art as well as with fellow visitors ; 
  • Create  interactive situations and artworks that encourage the visitors physical action, manipulate their sensory encounters, and/or showcase their creative expressions.
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      • 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
      • 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...?
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    • Movement, Dance, and Creative Writing for Theater Professionals
    • Dance Performance Studies
    • Études de Danse et Pratiques Performatives
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