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AAS / SocialCubeDisintegratorNagualForRoyBhaskar

 

AAS
(2011)
page last updated Fri, 19 Aug 2011,  6:00am PDT

 

 

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Description
Performance developed from the diagram 'Four-planar Social Cube' by Roy Bhaskar

 

 

Duration:   Approx 30 minutes
# of Performers:   5 plus audience participants

 

 

Materials / Instrumentation / Performers
Drums, dried sage, lighter fluid, fans, water

 

 

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Score / Notes
A – Plane of material interactions with nature

 

• Four performers delineate a square on the ground using the four elements
• A fifth performer beats out rhythm on a drum

 

B – Plane of inter/intra-subjective [personal] relations

 

• Four performers are approached in turn by the fifth performer
• The fifth performer transmits instructions on which chant to interpret/perform (enable, constrain, transformation or reproduction) while continuing drumming

 

C – Plane of social relations

 

• Four performers chant and shout their parts to create a collective noise
• The fifth performer hands out drums to members of the audience while continuing drumming

 

D – Plane of subjectivity of the agent

 

• Four performers attempt to enter into trance through drumming and vocally producing the eternal drone
• The fifth performers (audience) accompany

 

 

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