Deadly Dance of the Bacchae

 

“An except from Euripides deadly crazy 5th chorus in The Bacchae as staged for PBS starring Mia Parovitz as Dionysos and Morgan Marcum as the Chorus Leader.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. The Bacchae
  2. BACCHAE
  3. “The priest must be careful, however, to consecrate the Host in the orthodox manner. The wine has been adulterated with magical drugs like deadly nightshade and vervain, but the priest must convert it into the blood of Christ.”
  4. “SOPHIE! I loved her, tenderly at worst. Yet in my passion’s highest ecstasy, When life lost pleasure in desire to die And never taste again the deadly thirst For those caresses; even then a curst Sick pang shot through me: looking afar on high, Beyond, I see Σοφία in the sky.”
  5. “Then the fun began. We saw–and my teacher was able to identify–hundreds of shapes, weird “half-formed faces” which were thronging the room, marching in fantastic dance about its confines. These were definitely malicious forces, demons, which one had to study and conquer.”