Dancing on the emerald table: (Mis)adventures in performance and esoterica

Lance Gharavi

doi:10.1080/1046293042000312805

Dancing on the emerald table: (Mis)adventures in performance and esoterica

Lance Gharavi

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Abstract

Science and spirituality are popularly understood as delineating opposing ideological grounds. Yet we rely on both for the models, images, and myths that bring meaning to our lives. Part of a larger project to generate new technologies for the arts, the ongoing creation of the digital performance work IM/UR uses metaphors drawn from science to explore our most profound spiritual desires. In this essay, the author describes the two principles that guided his work on IM/UR. The first of these principles emerges from Western mystic tradition, the second from the problematic position of live media in performance. Ultimately, the author finds these two principles incompatible.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	348-363
Number of pages	16
Journal	Text and Performance Quarterly
Volume	24
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/1046293042000312805
State	Published - Jan 1 2004

Keywords

Mysticism
Performance
Spirituality
Technology
Theatre

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Communication
Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Literature and Literary Theory

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