Program Notes

"At the same time, something else entirely is going on: not imitation at all but a capture of code, surplus value of code, an increase in valence, a veritable becoming, a becoming-wasp of the orchid and a becoming-orchid of the wasp" - Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus In occult practices, left hand path magic is often associated with the breaking of taboos and evilness, as well as the rejection of external dieties in a pursuit of self-deification. Left hand path magic, and magic in general, can represent a reassertion of agency over conditions one has no control over. Through the performance of these magics practitioners undergo a process of change, to turn a Deleuzian phrase, becoming-magic. Left Hand Paths explores these concepts of agency, becoming, and otherness over its 8 movements incorporating or inspired by occult texts including Helena Blavatsky's "Secret Doctrines", Eliphas Levi's "Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie", the Chaldean Oracles, and the Mithras Liturgy.

Left Hand Paths (2026)* || Drew Farrar

I. Processional

II. Secret Doctrines I

III. Dogme et Rituel I

IV. Chaldean Oracle I

V. Dogme et Rituel II

VI. Mithras Liturgy

VII. Chaldean Oracle II

VIII. Secret Doctrines II

*World Priemere