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ROSARY (working title) |
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The Rosary Project is an evening-long production based on notions of ritualism, involving the merging of music, text and action through live performance and electronics (pre-recorded CDs as well as real-time sound manipulation). This creative endeavour takes as its foundation the practice of using prayer beads in various cultures and faiths. Beginning with the devotional practice among Catholics of praying the rosary, the work gradually progresses, evolves, and complexifies to include a pluralistic perspective on the seemingly omnipresent use of prayer beads among a wide range of belief systems. In the process, we hope to re-examine and complicate the practice of using beads (and perhaps other such counters) for the purpose of praying and practicing devotion. Here, we are speaking of how prayer beads can become a crutch for some, while for others they become perfunctory and merely routine, and yet for others more, the ritual is a truly spiritual experience serving as a way to connect to some higher deity, or to achieve a meditative state that can range from calm and beatific to physical and ecstatic. These are emotional, mental, and physical states we hope to explore, evoke, and experience, through the performance. . The project is to be developed during the course of 2008 and 2009. |
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Sidney Marquez Boquiren, composition Olivier Provily, Director Ayelet Harpaz, voice Anne La Berge, flutes & Ensemble MAE Production: Buro Saai and MAE |
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