These performances are the evening entertainment for the deluxe admission only. Please see our ticketing page for more information.

Elysium Obscura

In Greek Mythology, Elysium was a section of the underworld (the spelling Elysium is a Latinization of the Greek word Elysion). The Elysian Fields, or the Elysian Plains, were the final resting place of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous.

Elysium Obscura yearns to reconnect to the elysian fields of our souls… to reclaim our divinity from the jaws of the 20th century. Our music strives to ritualize this need of reconnection, to reawaken our oneness with life, accept our death and transcend into our rebirth… that which has always been.

For more information visit www.myspace.com/elysiumobscura

 

Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule

Orryelle will perform a ritual theatrical and musical presentation of ‘The Tela Quadrivium’, revealing the Alchemy behind this four-fold bookweb of which the Red Book Conjunctio (Fulgur ‘08) is the first published.

Esoteric keys will be revealed of the four colored tomes, four color phases and corresponding live musical explorations (violin, voice, electronica), and with four dances in ritual collaboration with Serpentris Divinum (Seattle).

At the Seattle Esoteric Book Conference Orryelle will also be presenting for the first time a 22-copy limited edition of his ‘The Book of Going Back by Night’ (inc. the never-before-seen third chapter and commentary) hand-bound by Hellfire Books UK.

A prolific visual, sonic and textual artist-magickian, Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule is the director of Australia’s Metamorphic Ritual Theatre Co., artist of Conjunctio (a Graphic Grimmoire) and The Book of Kaos Tarot, and author of A Brief HIRStory of TimEmiT.

 

Danse Perdue

Danse Perdue/Death Posture is a multidisciplinary collective specializing in the creation of the raw fine arts. Their work is both classical and transgressive, exploring the same spiritual/environmental terrain as Artaud, Galas, Coil, Bataille, de Sade, Genet, Bresson, Deleuze/Guattari, Bosch, and Witkin among many. Through the twin alchemical tools of visceral perception and intellectual restlessness we create a living mirror reflecting how empathy is mutated by violence, how a multiplicity of emotive currents flow within atrocity, how through these we are each and all inextricably linked. We arc toward revolution by means of experiential work/life — to seek, to question and to share — acolytes of the unknown.

Alex Ruhe and Vanessa Skantze have performed extensively in the U.S. and Europe, both as Danse Perdue/Death Posture and with butoh master Atsushi Takenouchi. They are bonded to Atsushi Takenouchi’s Jinen Butoh in approach to performance as being. They create group works for multiple dancers as well as solo and duo structured and improvisational works. Initially formed with two experimental guitarists in New Orleans, Donald Miller and Rob Cambre, Dance Perdue works constantly with live music and has performed with many extraordinary improvisers from the U.S., Europe and Japan. They hold practices twice weekly as well as more extensive workshops which draw from Jinen butoh, Body Weather, yoga, Noguchi gymnastics, voice and somatic movement training and years of practice, exploration, and creation of original work.

For more information and booking:
www.danseperdue.org
www.myspace.com/deathposture
www.facebook.com/DansePerdue