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All articles tagged: ritual

what artists think in Issue #07: Rituals of Now
Shruti Ghosh

Riyaaz as Ritual Connecting The Sacred and Profane in Kathak

Riyaaz emerges as a ritual, imperative in connecting the dancer’s everyday reality with the devotee’s ideal world. Read more...
what artists think in Issue #07: Rituals of Now
John Rundell

Music as a Space of Possibilities

John Rundell notes the mechanised rituals associated with modern social existence: we keep time, we check our pace in relation to others. Read more...
what artists think in Issue #07: Rituals of Now
Alice Heyward

Shared Division

At any given moment, we are the present embodiment of the past, as well as the life of the future. Life and death rituals exist so that we can attempt to access and connect to the world of the dead and inherited. Read more...
diary entries in Issue #07: Rituals of Now
Diary Entry Contributions

To what extent can dance/performance/ theatre be considered a form of ritual today?

Diary entry contributions by Yumi Umimare, Linda Luke, Soo Yeun You and Sarah-Jane Norman. Read more...
conversations in Issue #07: Rituals of Now
Anne Marsh and Philipa Rothfield

Ritual and Shamanism within (Performance) Art

I think the body is a disruptive element; theorists and practitioners have come to understand that the body, the somatic, the haptic, are equally important as notions of social construction Read more...
feature article in Issue #07: Rituals of Now
Deborah Jowitt

Watching Dance, Rituals of Spectatorship

And in fact, the image of unsuspecting audience members performing pre-determined, ritualised actions in a partially unknown context and without tangible benefit to the universe or the gods seems to resonate with the way we live our lives. Read more...
feature article in Issue #07: Rituals of Now
Betty Lefevre

Contemporary Dance and its Rituals: The Example of a work by Alain Platel

The contemporary dance performance belongs to a “romantic” sociality and to the “useless” activities that allow for sensed experience, a lived emotion, an imaginary, a meditation. Read more...
editorial in Issue #07: Rituals of Now
Angela Conquet

THE END OF TRANSCENDENCE? – In Praise of Rituals

Embodied in dance, rituals allow us to perceive, experience and relate to time and space differently. Read more...
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