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Ritual

Ritual is usually an interactive experience where participants are both active and know what
is involved within the roles allotted them. Most rituals but not all of them, are a collection
of residual sacramental enthusiasm which society follow as a complicated cultural script
which do included rituals of betrothals and other special events. These cultural scripts
highlight the need of society to perform to cultural expectations. Enacting this script allows
the person to derive meaning from the ritual itself. While making each occasion
simultaneously traditional and unique. In other words, people attempt to follow the core
script while adjusting peripheral aspects to their own tastes. These rituals entail ritualized
social practices that mobilize domains of material objects, visual images and written text.
They reinforce and result in a series of attitudes and structural features, ingrained in our
modern culture.

Public ritual has traditionally been the province of religion and this is the reason why ritual
leans itself to performance art as rituals are usefully timed, scripted and specially staged
for all involved. Using ritual in the performance gives the art a symbolic meaning using
rituals you are engaging the viewer with codes or triggers which they can connect with, but
these rituals are being used as tactics to make a point, challenging or mimicking what occurs
during a social ritual rather than continuing to express or reinforce a cultural meaning and
tradition which is imbedded with society and has rules and indications for how society
structures the lives of its people.

Ritualized moments consist of people moving in accord with cultural scripts. The study of
rituals often reveals that these actions be directly linked to the social and cultural values
that people implicitly and explicitly place on their country, ancestry, religion, and ability
to perform and teach performance. In our society, knowledge is passed from a teacher to a
student, mother/father to child, a transcendental exchange of wisdom and talent occurs,
expressly at the will of the informer. This is how social interactions can be viewed as
performance.

Ritual is a performance that is representative of the social interactions common to culture


and society. Reinforcing the ideal that ritual serves as forms of communication that endorse
group cohesion Performance relies on the emotional connection of the audience to create
the conditions for projecting cultural meaning from performance to audience, the goals of
performance art remains the same as the ambient of a ritual it stands or falls on the ability
to produce psychological identification and cultural extension.

Types of ritual
Initiation: Into any group, organization, cult, etc. there are certain rites and rituals of initiation,
in which the seeker or aspirant must partake in, in order to join. These may include vows of
secrecy, a ceremonial "rebirth" of some kind into the group, and an oath of loyalty to the group.
Magical: Magical rituals may be practiced with a group, or by oneself. Normally, magickal
rituals require special ritual tools and an understanding of the nature of correspondence.
Worship: Rituals of worship include prayer, consecration of food and drink towards a deity,
invoking the name of a deity.
Celebration: Rituals of celebration are much like rituals of worship, except that they usually
fall on a specific reoccuring day of the year, much like Yule or Halloween.
Protection: A protection ritual, like the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, is aimed at
directing divine energy for protection of the ritualist.
Healing: A healing ritual is often performed in private, with one person acting as the healer of
another.
Transformation: This type is considered a ritual to transform the self.
Storytelling: Also called a Bardic, this ritual involves the telling of stories, through narrative
or through song.
Fire Ritual: A ritual that involves the Element of Fire, whether as a bonfire, a candle, or some
other method.
Funeral: A funeral ritual involves the sending of the dead to the next world. (Not to be confused
with necromancy, which is just the opposite.)

Theatre
Types of Theatres
Broadway
one of the 40 professional theaters in the Broadway Theater District in Manhattan with 500
or more seats. West End is the London equivalent to Broadway.

off-Broadway
--smaller professional theaters (with a capacity from 100 to 499 seats) around and outside the
central New York theater district on Broadway and around Times Square. Originally noted for
their experimental nature, these theaters have become for the most part, as commercial as their
Broadway counterparts.

off-off-Broadway
--very small professional theaters with less than 100seats, which are often set up in lofts,
warehouses, or churches and are usually characterized by their experimental scripts and styles
of productions

regional theatre
--also called resident theatre. A term applied to permanent nonprofit professional theatre
companies that have established roots outside the major theatre centers. Besides bringing first-
rate theatre to their region, they often have programs to nurture local talent and to encourage
new plays of special regional interest.

LORT League of Resident Theaters


a group of 71 regional theaters that are considered the top regional theaters in the country
they are comparable to off-Broadway theaters. The Alliance is a member of LORT.
Repertory theatre
--set group of productions that a theatre company has prepared for performance; also, the
practice of alternating performances of different plays of the repertory. A repertory company
may perform a work for years.

resident company
--a non-touring group using the same core of actors for the majority of its plays road
company/touring company
--company of performers who travel with a show that they present in essentially the same way
it was originally created in a theatre center such as New York(like many of the shows that play
at the Fox)

touring show
--a play performed by a company at numerous locations (like smaller theaters and high schools)

dinner theatre
--Theatre presented to an audience that is dining at tables around the performance space; dinner
is usually included in the ticket price

community theatre
--amateur, non-profit theatre that provides an opportunity for the non-professional to take an
active part in all phases of theatre from acting to design

summer stock theater


--a theatrical company that only produces plays during the summer

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