Lorna Irvine reviews 'a powerful, glorious and passionate' performance.
Part of the Taiwan Season at Summerhall this festival, this amazing experience weaves prayer, song and ritual together with an unflinching focus on a combination of blessings, sadness, madness and rebirth.
Particularly affecting is the music: Sayum Vuraw and Moli Kati's vocals are soaring as the tonal moods shift, but it is the imagery that will stay imprinted on the mind for a long time.
The performers use
their bodies as the encapsulation of theatre itself: Zuvonne Yao pours paint
from wine bottles around the canvas on the floor and over herself until
drenched in red and black and crashing to the floor. This is a representation
of catharsis, of cleansing herself of sorrows. In another segment, performers
are covered in mud, and bodies entwine in twisting movements evocative of
religious and sexual ecstasy.
Misa-Lisinis a powerful, glorious and passionate piece which is mesmerising to witness and impossible to forget—the rest of the world just melts away for this one moment.
Misa-Lisin performs at Summerhall.
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