NIGREDO
NIGREDO ritual was devised for IGNOTA BOOKS at Somerset House. Celebrating the launch of a publisher 'at the intersection of technology, myth-making and magic'. (Halloween 2018)
“The evening programme also centred around ‘NIGREDO’: a trance-like ceremony that involved moments of speech, singing, and the sound of the gong, devised and led by musician Nicole Bettencourt Coelho. Magical thinking is the ‘point at which all things intersect’. Rituals operate as a celebration of liminal space – often a communion between the past and the future – and a blurring of spiritual and psychic boundaries. ‘Ritual is not only about attaining something, it is also a means of escaping existing narratives. Finding the pulse that exists in all living things.’ "
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thank you to all the performers, sound therapists and musicians who brought this to life and held space for magic : Lani Rocillo, Martina Saorin, Mario Benedetti, Sim Gray, Linda Burrato, Scout Creswick, Annabelle Stapleton-Crittenden, Ley Ley Coelho, Katy Dron, Flo Smith, Harold Wijetunge, Caitlin McNamara, Daisy Smith.