1997
TRANCE BAKXAI is a theatrical rave, the celebration of a collective ritual – persistence of the sacred in everyday life as a discipline to mystery – between sound and living image. The duration is about seven hours, between darkness and first light, the iconography is that of the rave – within the multiples not as faithful reflections, but multiplications by variation of meaning.
The guiding text is Euripides’ Bacchae, a significant trace of sound. Then we build the accesses to the various levels of sense and sensoriality: through the study of sound frequencies lower or higher than the audible frequencies, to increase the perceptual spectrum. Through the study of pulsation, speed and slowness. We build rhythmic structures for postures, collective movements: performers work on physical modules that used through repetition are choral moments. The live voice – which constructs a contemporary tragic text – alternates with fragments sampled from the Euripid text, like mantras, vocal cells. Live music is combined.
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