Chiari Baldini (PT)

She wrote “Dionysus Returns: Contemporary Tuscan Trancers and Euripides’ The Bacchae” featured in The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance (Routledge, 2010) and she co-authored with Graham St. John “Dancing at the Crossroads of Consciousness: Techno-Mysticism, Visionary Arts and Portugal’s Boom Festival” for the Brill’s Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production (2012). She participated to Breaking Convention 2013 with a presentation on the “Political outcomes of ecstatic practices: the case of the Bacchanals Affair in ancient Rome.” In 2014 she curated the program of Boom Festival’s cultural area, the Liminal Village, with particular attention to theme of the Feminine.