higher, lower – forms of ritual
Category: Dissertation
Rhythm and Timing of Movement in Performance: Drama, Dance and Ceremony, by Janet Goodridge
‘Indeed as soon as rhythm is mentioned, we are likely to find ourselves enveloped in as dense a fog of mysticism and vagueness as that which beclouds the subject of form itself’ (John Martin, 1939) (p. 15)
Ritual
My interest in ritual comes as a result of my work and thought around materiality, physicality and immediacy. Broadly, what interests me is the virtualisation of objects through symbols and signs to the scope of paradoxically returning them closer to their materiality and enabling them to access the body in a very immediate way. ‘symbols… Continue reading Ritual