We recommend an online appointment for SATURDAY 29 JANUARY 2022 that will take place on the Arci Tavola Tonda Facebook page: CHORÓS Seminar (external link to FB page)
The vision of the Sacred in the cultures of the European Paleolithic and Neolithic
(Event of the European Polygraphic Institute - Publishing House and Arci Round Table)
CHORÓS, in addition to its performative training course, offers in-depth theoretical seminars on the themes that underlie the research project.
LUCIANA PERCOVICH one of the reference points in Italy for research on the sacred in women.
From the archaeological documentation regarding music and dance in Sicily emerges a culture deeply intertwined with the plots of the feminine, linked to the Nymphs (and then to the Muses, Sibyls, Sirens, Bacchantes): historical-mythological figures common to the whole Mediterranean since the Paleolithic and traces of which remain – re-functionalized – until today.
We are used to thinking of the singing voice as a prayer: but long before singing – millennia before words were born to express concepts – dance and shared rhythm were the first 'languages' to communicate the sense of the sacred and to create the perception of community together.
This is because Rhythm (in the form of percussive sound, and in the form of dance movement) is a real technical tool that creates connections: between women and men, between human beings and the cosmos.
In this meeting we will dialogue with Luciana Percovich on the birth of the sense of the sacred, connecting it with the birth of the concept of rhythm and the first forms of percussion, with the first Mediterranean dance circles and the first percussionists.