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Dark dance: Eros, illness and the sacred
A lecture by Alkistis Dimech on butô, antinomian dance and the radical reappraisal of the body after Nietzsche, presented at the Occulture Conference in Berlin on 20th October 2023.
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On butô, body and movement
Alkistis recently spoke with Darragh Mason for his Spirit Box podcast, on butô, movement and consciousness in relation to magic and working with spirit(s).
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The Mystical Body
A conversation on the place of the mystic and the body in our modern surveillance cities, with Alkistis Dimech and philosopher Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh.
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The Heretic: Body
Alkistis Dimech discusses the body, opening with Tatsumi Hijikata as a focal point of her praxis, and exploring the body as a vehicle for mantic vision, and dance as rebellion.