Ravnedans Festival, Kristiansand, Norway, 2018

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Idea, design and choreography: Irina Lavrinovic
Performers/space holders: Karine Bull-Gjertsen, Adelin, Siv Anne Tollevik, Lisa Marie Hovden, Axel Rudolphi and Irina Lavrinovic

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Ritual of Regeneration was created during the six days of the Ravnedans Festival 2018 in Kristiansand, Norway with five (non) professional female performers. The ritual manifested as the festival’s closing event at a venue called Teateret as well as aligned to the new moon and the solar eclipse on 13th of July. 

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The audience of Ravnedans was invited to join Irina and a group for a ritual of regeneration. The ritual invoked the part that women performed in ancient times as spiritual generators within their own communities. First names become source material that is said, chanted and danced, giving a spiraling energy to an event that sheds new light on issues of togetherness and on the place of women in personal and communal history.