Since 1977 this paratheatre medium has undergone its own evolution through many different phases and groups. Between 1992 and 2004, three full-length video documents were produced as an attempt to capture something of this metamorphosis. Since so much of this work engages the internal landscape, these videos were never made with the idea that this work could be revealed for all to see and understand. However, they may offer a series of windows into specific times, places, and group dynamics that carry their own unique transmission (of these three, only "Orphans of Delirium", was executed before a live audience). - Antero
"ARCHAIC COMMUNITY" (1992)
MAN/WOMAN CEREMONY (a.k.a. the "Yin Circle Ritual").
The women access and maintain the power of Yin in the center,
as the men access the power of Yang at the periphery. Men circle
in
towards the center but must await invitation from a woman
to
enter the Yin Circle. Page 65 in "Towards an Archeology fo the Soul"
in this clip: Camille Hildebrandt, Meta Sean Dougherty, Joy Laughter
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"CRUX" (1999) clip #1
THE SUBMERGED CROSS RITUAL
Rituals were designed to expose the crux of what participants lived for,
not as any conceptual understanding but as gnosis or direct experience
of the answer and an embodiment of the question itself.
Page 159 in
"Towards an Archeology fo the Soul"; also online at CRUX interview
in this clip: Julian Simeon, Sylvi Alli, Nick Walker, Lea Bender.
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"CRUX" (1999) clip #2
ON A NONSECTARIAN CRUCIFIXION ARCHETYPE
Rituals were designed to expose the crux of what participants lived for,
not as any conceptual understanding but as gnosis or direct experience
of the answer and an embodiment of the question itself. Page 159 in
"Towards an Archeology fo the Soul"; also online at CRUX interview
in this clip: Lea Bender, Nick Walker, Marit Elverland.
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"ORPHANS OF DELIRIUM" (2004)
PARATHEATRE LAB THEME: INITIATION
Rituals were developed to catalyze initiatic experience and
the
formation of rituals of initiation itself, of exposing
to the
participants
facets of Self they had no previous knowledge
and no maps or models to explain or guide the experience.
in this clip: Paradox Pollack, Alaska Yamada, Brian Livingston
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THESE CLIPS ARE EXCERPTS FROM FULL-LENGTH VIDEOS
AVAILABLE ON DVD. FOR DVD PRODUCT DETAILS, CLICK THIS.
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