"Myths have flourished wherever men have lived, in all times and under all conditions, and they have been the living source of inspiration for all that man has produced by the efforts of body and spirit" (J. Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 1949, 11). Mythology is not just meaningless, fictional stories. These are the archetypes of the subconscious images of primitive communities, symbolic references on how to live this life, how to cross the thresholds of life stages (from adolescence to maturity, from maturity to old age) and dispel the cruel sense of meaninglessness that accompanies us. The pre-images of subconscious images are alive in the psyche of the present individual. The creative team of the musical performance "Mitai" delves into their meaning and significance for modern people.
The performance transports the audience to a mystical mythological story about human life: the Hero of Myth is accompanied by the promise of happiness from birth. Guided by a prophecy, he encounters the strangest creatures: monsters, goddesses, titans, sages, masks and minotaurs. In other words, similar to what each of us meets every day. A hero affected by the creatures experiences enlightenments and obscurations, ups and downs, similar to those experienced by each of us. However, no challenges of life's journey can dislodge the prophecy taking root deeper and deeper into the soil of the subconscious: in the misty, mysterious future - just not here and now - the Hero is waiting for a spiritual and emotional, total and complete fulfillment, which will definitely happen! If you're lucky. And I have to be lucky? Or not?
During the creative process, the synthesis of strings, percussion and wind instruments and electronics, made for this performance, forms a unique world of sounds of the performance: from cosmic sci-fi speakers to the chirping of cozy birds, from the hooting of elephants to the rumble of drums reminiscent of primordial war. The meditative atmosphere, created by the sounds of unusual acoustic instruments, light and shadows and the suggestive myth saturated with mysticism, turns this performance into a unique, collective therapy-like experience. The experience of how modern society, living in the world of science, technology, information and facts, disconnects the life of its consciousness from any figurative meaning and faith in that sense is gradually lost.
