Through music, art and dance from the collective creation of willing Burning Man participants including a Vodoun Priest and Priestess from Haiti and opera singers from Europe, this
ensemble of 400 nymphs, satyrs, sculptors, fire artists, mask-makers, musicians, costumers, choreographers, demons, and angels, will be unleashed at midnight to metamorphose and reveal the primal being deep within ourselves.
Carrying their altars, standards, and ceremonial objects of adoration, the five sects devoted to the Playa Spirits - the green-mudded snake-people of Damballah; the red, fire wielding knights of Ogoun; the white-veiled, erotic
Ezilis; the black-draped, morbidly obscene yet capricious Guede; and the energetic drummers and builders of Couzin Azaka - invade the flaming Sacrosanct Pentagon and the Totems of Life and Death in a ceremony of Mystery and
Sacralization. At the climax of the rite, the altars, stages and giant totems are set ablaze. Frenetically dancing to the fire, the Children of the Spirits, followed by all Burning Man participants in
attendance, shall pierce the flaming Portal of Life and Death in an Initiation by Fire, into the NewEra. In order to prepare the creation of an opera inspired by Voodoo,
Feel free to read
By the
time they returned to their respective homes in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Berlin, they were fully initiated Voodoo priests and a priestess.
Apparently, they would do anyhting for the opera...
Also linked is the script for this year's opera, the sect guide, and other pertinent info. Please read the
info. You are encouraged and invited to participate in the opera.
In order to prepare the creation of an opera inspired by Voodoo, Pepe,
along with OHC emissaries, co-producer Twan,; opera director
Christopher Fuelling,
and mutual friend Andrea, decided that it would be wise to go to Haiti to do the intensive research required for realistic representation on the Playa. What they found there was far beyond their wildest expectations.
Feel free to read
By the
time they returned to their respective homes in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, and Berlin, they were fully initiated Voodoo priests and a priestess.
Apparently, they would do anyhting for the opera...
Also linked is the script for this year's opera, the sect guide, and other pertinent info. Please read the
info. You are encouraged and invited to participate in the opera. "Vodou Mystical Journey"
Click here for our detailed story.
Script: Le Mystere de Papa Loko
1999 Photo Gallery 19
