Meditation Opera (2019)
The interactive ‘Meditation Opera’ is a community experience, which includes separate mindfulness and sound awareness training in the evening, to be followed by a music performance in which our audience takes an active part. The opera is an artistic movement through various meditation and mindfulness techniques, exploring Chakra frequencies, an awareness of breathing, yoga and bodily sensations, a tribal ritual exploring the symbolism behind colours and the elements of water, fire, earth and air. The idea was developed at a summer-residency at DAR Druskininkai, with a trial performance in Merkines Piramide, Lithuania in 2019. It premiered at Halland Opera & Vocal Festival (HOVF) in Halmstad, Sweden, in February 2020.
Duration: 60 min. workshop + 60 min. performance
Format: instructions for audience on yoga mats for workshop; instructions and music performance (live with electronics) for audience on yoga mats for opera, surrounded by 4 speakers and lights.
Performers: 3 (soprano, violin, multi-instrumentalist)
Photo slide: Malin Arnesson, Rūta Vitkauskaitė, Michael Idehall
