ABSTRACT
Maura Hazelden collaborated with acoustic singer Lou Laurens to create a six-hour performance in the Small World Theatre that explored ritual and prayer. The responses to the 2008 Holy Hiatus events indicated that there was a desire for more exploration of the relationships between art, liminality, and ritual and that there was potential for dialogue across disciplines within the arts and humanities including anthropology, ethnography, ritual studies, cultural geography, and religious studies. Studying the responses of participants of Holy Hiatus events and workshops has led author to believe that people from disciplines across the arts and humanities crave more opportunities to experience ritual liminality in direct and embodied ways, even if this is also challenging. Possibilities are arising to turn Holy Hiatus into a formal organization enabling more events throughout the year.
