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    D i o n y s u s :  R i t e s  t o  R a v e

     

    Performance

     

    Performed in the Glasgow International Festival as a part of the Circus Between Worlds, in the New Caledonia Road Free Church, Glasgow, Scotland

    Dionysus: Rites to Rave is a piece created by the artist collective La Malle des Indes

     

    http://www.circusbetweenworlds.org

    “These rites are not for you to hear,

    but they are worth knowing”

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    - Dionysus, The Bacchae, Euripides

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    Dionysus: Rites to Rave is a 10-person performance which is inspired by Euripides’s The Bacchae. The Bacchae tells the story of Pentheus, king of Thebes, who refuses to celebrate the god Dionysus, a heresy that the king will pay for with his own life. As with all Greek tragedies, this piece shows the danger of excess: In this case, Dionysus punishes those, who by an excess of hubris and cold intellect, refuse the part of themselves that is most animal and wild. Dionysus brings sacredness to art, savagery and partying. He joins humans and animals, women and men, rich and poor. He is a god of carnival and liberation, a god of earth and theatre.

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    How can we celebrate Dionysus in 2016? How is our neglect of the wild within ourselves mirrored in our treatment of our environment? How can we rediscover the ancient mysticism of partying? This celebration aims to shatter frontiers. Animals, long-extinct, make their re-appearances. These rites embody a research into diverse dance forms, sacred music, oral tradition and into building an interaction with the audience. We wish, not only to discover the wild where we are, but to help the audience find the wildness within themselves - an ancient connection to the land, to music, wine and dance that constitutes our contemporary Dionysian celebration!

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    2016

    • Dionysus Lives

    • Dionysus Lives: Déjeuner sur l'herbe

    • Dionysus: Rites to Rave

    • Black River Installation

    2015​

    • New Winds Over Alba

    • Black River (In Basho's Footsteps)

    • The Calligraphy of Dance

    • Your Horizons

    • The Blue Skies of Your Horizons (for Chandi)

    • with the lights off... (for Chandi)

    • what makes the desert beautiful...

    2014

    • In Basho's Footsteps

    • Video Haiku Series

    • Leaf Storm

    • The Minotaur

    • What the Thunder Said

    • Titleless Mythology

    • Apotropaios

    • Fahrenheit 451

    2013​​​​

    • Dragonfly

    • The Wolf Hunt

    • 5 Cards

    • Fossil Fuel

    • The Wasteland

    2012​

    • The Art in Biology

    • Lake Baikal Circumnavigation

    • Fear and Trembling Series

    • Limbo

    • David

    • The Lover

    • Reincarnation

    • 3 Wolves

    • Les Bouteilles

    • Black Light

    • Self Portrait Series

    • 4 Views of Mt. Adams

    2011

    • In The Library of Lost Objects

    • Uncovered: Drawing Series

    2010

    • Lola

    • The Brick Prison