Description: Pepe Ozan's Burning Man Opera, annual rite in Black Rock City, Burning Man
sculpture (7015) atlantis (479) twan (8) ishtar (8) rudra (4) burning man opera (1) pepe ozan (1) papa loko (1) empress zoe (1) eric oberthaler (1)
Black Rock City 1996-2004 (2012 ..??)
Each year the Friday Tower Burn ritual became more elaborate. Preparations drew on the talents of theater professionals, musicians, dancers, costumers, and mask-makers. On the playa, everyone was invited to participate, and a large percentage of burners present did. By 1996 these rituals were renamed the Burning Man Opera . Each opera took inspiration from a different religious tradition or myth. Favored in each tradition were the possibilities for expressing Dionysian ecstatic release through theatrical re
THE THAUR-TAURS OF ATLAN