Ritual Opera Collective presents works of music theatre, staged in a performance setting where the audience and performers are melted into an experience, structured as a contemporary representation of a primordial ritual. The collective consists of Jelena Vuksanovic (Author, Director, Dramaturg) and Andys Skordis (Composer, Conductor). They have worked and presented performances in various occasions and settings ranging from temples, rivers, abandoned buildings and stage performances. Their work has been presented in Bali, Berlin, Belgrade, Nicosia and Athens. They have received the Berlin opera prize 2022. Their work together establishes an extensive research on elements deriving from mythology, urban myths, ceremonial forms and popular stories, with an aim to connect these foundations with universal values and human conditions of our time; thus presenting concepts inspired from the past, expressed in present and referring to the future. Ultimately, they are seeking new ways of storytelling, which can communicate on different levels of perception, based on the concept of visible and invisible worlds from  the Balinese culture (Sekala and Niskala). This research is established in a non linear and logical way, but instead it is shaped through an intuitive, sacral, archetypal language resulting in words, sounds, images and movement.

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