Description:

Before sundown on the fifth night of Burning Man, the Trojan Horse will begin its last “rights” of passage. Columns of Burners will pull the 20-ton beast on its massive cart across the playa and through the Gates of Troy to where the beast will burn. A large procession with loud, cacophonic music will accompany the migration. The music, composed by Douglas Bevans, will be interactive and performed by a massive corps of drummers and brass players. The procession of costumed Greek deities and Greek and Trojan mortals will be solemn, the death march and last rites for the horse. We believe this will be one of the largest and most spectacular pieces of performance art ever brought to the playa. Once the horse passes through the Gates of Troy, pure pandemonium (led by Pan) and a full-scale celebration with DJs and a powerful sound system will erupt. At midnight Artemis, Apollo, and their band of archers will shoot flaming arrows onto the upper reaches of the beast. Zor the Fyre God will finish torching the horse. In a spectacular conflagration, the horse will burn quickly and the party and dancing will resume around the fallen beams and embers. A riotous night of revelry (some orchestrated) will follow. Dionysius reigns!