KATABASIS
katabasis is a processional performance inspired by ancient Greek and Roman mystery rites that led congregants through a series of sensorial and spiritually illuminating encounters. In fourlarks' fete of music, spectacle, and immersive physical theatre, a company of trans-disciplinary performers guide the audience across the grounds and gardens of the Getty Villa, to commune with the dead and receive blessings for this life and the next.
A site-specific opera created at the Getty Villa, january 2019. Learn more at fourlarks.com/production/katabasis
music from katabasis is available at fourlarks.bandcamp.com/album/katabasis (track featured here is 'judges', vox from Jett Kwong, Sharon Cohi Kim, and Lukas Papenfusscline, contrabass from Matt Orenstein and James Vitz-Wong, Violin from Yvette Cornelia Holzwarth, and Vibes from James Waterman)
camera: Christin Turner, Cyrus Tan, & Paul Marino
"Triumphant...A high-water mark for site specific theatre…"
— Kevin Gossett, No Proscenium
"Like a profound church service in its reach for eternal stasis...so beautifully and skillfully ensnared by fourlarks…"
— Steven Leigh Morris, Stage Raw
"The best theatre I've seen in years…"
— Mark Gordon, Center Stage
