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...A.R.T.: experience. “I’m interested in how we can really get to the roots of when theater had power,” she writes in her publicity material, “when it was ritual.” The “ritual?? that she’s trying to capitalize on here is the idea of nights out with friends, and though clubbing itself may be a relatively new concept, it actually shares similar foundations with the origins of American theater, which was once a rowdy, sociable, exciting time for all involved...
...third movement, though the brass section again writhed as if in its dying throes.Balance was restored in the fourth movement, where the tune—inspired by the Russia of Stravinsky’s birth—smoothed out once again.Then the orchestra performed “Night Dance Ritual?? by Lim, the winner of the BachSoc’s yearly composition contest. Lim truly had a voice of her own. The piece was eerie, beginning uncertainly with a rumbling timpani. As the dissonant strings evoked a dark world—with the cellos mourning and the harp...
...Returning from the proverbial underworld, participants partake of the “fruit of life”—apple slices—before ending the ritual with a dance to raise energy in a “Cone of Power.” Despite the ritual??s focus on death, the realm of the dead doesn’t feature any red horns or pitchforks: “We have nothing to do with the devil,” says Phoenix. —Esther...
...Association, Michael A. Sabet ’07, is president in name only. He is a point of contact for the group for the Harvard community, but he has no official role within the organization. “Aside from prayer, which is mandatory, there is very little ritual??no clergy” says Sabet. “Each person is responsible for their own spiritual developments.” The association holds devotional meetings, where members pray and read sacred texts. But none of the members take leadership roles during these meetings...
Faust has carved out a niche for herself all-too-typical of the intellectual provincialism characteristic of many of this generation’s scholars, having fashioned a career scribbling about vacuous constructions of “gender” and “ritual?? during a time period in which they had little acknowledged meaning...