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Re: RAT Presenting Ritual that is Theater-Based
Hello RATs,
My first time here.
I believe that we are all living in ritual all the time. The question is,
which ritual? So if we look closely we could extract the ritual from
anything. What would be available in the discussion if we took on 'choosing'
ritual rather than ritual choosing us?
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cat Hebert" <virtualdrama@juno.com>
To: <rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 4:10 PM
Subject: RAT Presenting Ritual that is Theater-Based
> Alfred,
>
> What I think I would prefer to make sure of is that it is something
> primarily theater-based, not a formal religious / spiritual / tested
> incantation / spell cycle / trance form, and not too long so we get
> active discussion of the notion of ritual. (Just off the top of my head,
> I'd say that some brief series of ritual / ceremonies that exemplify
> different aspects of the ritual -- and could have discussion between --
> would be my idea of the ideal balance.) Some fuller ritual held in the
> evening is another story.
>
> Coupled with that (maybe relating to all experimental processes) might be
> the self-evaluation process I keep harping on. How do you know a theater
> ritual is going to work? What are you trying to do with it? Do you
> actively know what you're doing if you are using existing rituals? (A few
> years ago we ran into a group of college theater students who had found a
> 13th century spell text buried in a library in the South and thought it
> would be "cool" [TRANS; "dish"] to translate them and enact them as
> theater. Not good. Very not good. We had to pull in a voodoo practitioner
> from New Orleans to stop the students from getting sick all the time. And
> this wasn't sympathetic magic. None of the kids believed in the ritual.
> It just sounded interesting.)
>
> What interests me is the idea that storytelling is always trance based,
> and designed that way. What would be great to get out of a
> performance/workshop would be to see how people can create their own
> rituals -- besides existing ones, the power (and danger) of ritual and
> the mechanism of incorporating it into theater.
>
> Cheers,
> Cat Hebert
>
>
> > i am going to get a few people together to participate
> > (the "Moorish Orthodox House of Anarchism, Mysticism
> > and Discord" MOHAMAD for short). the 6 of us have
> > done many rituals together and our backgrounds are
> > diverse...and all of us have organized group rituals
> > and performed ritual in various ways. what i was
> > hoping to do was hold a sort of workshop/talk/ritual
> > assemblage which would incorporate some of the ideas
> > of the Night of 1000 Heresies (which i organized early
> > last year) and some ritual tech and performance. no
> > structure set as of yet, but we'll figure something
> > out. i'm going to try and make it to the next meeting
> > here in philly this coming wednesday.
> >
> > > -- Ritual Potluck (I'm not kidding. This is what
> > > interactive dinner
> > > theater is based on. Anyone interested in putting
> > > something together than
> > > involves interactive performance while we're eating
> > > lunch?)
> >
> > we've done what i call a "divination
> > orgy"...essentially, you walk around and mingle, find
> > a partner (or partners) and perform divination with
> > them (tarot, runes, tibetan mo sticks, i ching,
> > whatever). could be part of the "potlatch" (giving the
> > gift of a reading is great fun and puts strangers into
> > interesting relationships). maybe this can be part of
> > it?
> >
> > alfred
> >
> >
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