Differences Between Ritual And Theater 5i526x

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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.

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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.

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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 ed 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.

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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.

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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 . 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 firstrate 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