ritual performance
The Stage
Boxing, spectacle, sacrifice, and the body placed where everyone can see it.
This is the ritual-body exhibition: boxer, glove, public body, sacrifice, and ascent.
Ring - Glove ritual
Scene 1
Put The Gloves On
If it doesn't fit, you must acquit.
Song Pairing: ABBA - Mamma Mia
The glove is costume, office, protection, and the start of the ritual body.
Scene 2
Take The Gloves Off
Hot as the Sun.
Song Pairing: Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
Taking the gloves off is exposure, humiliation, and contact with risk.
Scene 3
In the Name of Glove
In the Name of Glove.
Song Pairing: The Cure - The Holy Hour
Glove as faith, costume, and organizing word.
Stage - Public body
Scene 5
Eighteen Hundred Thousand
The champion as icon.
Song Pairing: Jean Dawson - Prize Fighter
Helmet, mask, stars, double.
Scene 6
Humility (TEETH)
Humility (TEETH).
Song Pairing: Spin Doctors - Two Princes
Text, teeth, icon, doubling.
Altar - Sacrifice and ascent
Scene 7
Baptism of Icarus
The boxing body grows wings.
Song Pairing: Geese - Au Pays du Cocaine
Ring body, wings, fall, ascent, fear, baptism.
Scene 8
Father Stretch My Hands
The hands become prayer and combat.
Song Pairing: Kanye West - Pt. 2
A boxer figure under spiritual pressure: fear, resolve, stage, and a reaching body.
Scene 9
Sex
The glove-image body.
Song Pairing: Rocky Horror Picture Show - Time Warp
Not a ring scene, but still ritualized display.