Channeling Perchta: Rauhnächte Performance

Perchta – Channeling Performance by Lotte Hauss.

The night opens like an old wound.
The air hums with something ancient, something that remembers us.

This Channeling is part of our full-length performance “Rauhnächte”.
Standing between worlds, Perchta’s voice carrying the weight of centuries.
Not as myth, not as memory, but as presence.

This moment — now captured in the video below — is not a performance.
It is a visitation.

The Invocation

Maison Douce works in the space between art and ritual, where form dissolves and what remains is the trembling of the unseen.
We call this channeling — a practice that refuses distance.
It is not acting. It is not imitation. It is surrender.

Through channeling, we let the forgotten voices move through us — archetypal, feminine, raw.
They rise from the collective underworld of memory, carrying the smell of pine smoke, frost, and iron.
They speak in tongues older than language, and yet familiar to every pulse that has ever longed for meaning.

In our work, the performer becomes vessel, the body becomes altar, and art itself becomes a means of listening.
To channel is to remember that creation once meant communion.
It is to kneel at the edge of something vast and let it pass through you — knowing it might never leave you the same.

The Goddess Who Waits in Winter

Perchta — the white lady, the watcher of the Rauhnächte. Before the churches, before the kings, her name was whispered in the cold between the years. She walks through the nights when the veil thins — the Wild Nights between the solstice and Epiphany — when time folds, and ghosts stir in the corners of rooms.

Perchta is not gentle, though she can be kind. She rewards those who live in truth and tears open those who forget their souls.
In her are both mercy and reckoning — the sharp edge of winter, and the promise of its thaw. In her echoes the breath of Frau Holle, the wild laughter of Baba Yaga, and the grief of all who have been silenced.

To call her is to face the rhythm of decay and renewal. To listen to her is to hear the earth speak again.

Between the Seen and the Unseen

Rauhnächte was conceived as an immersive ritual, merging live art, sound, and trance reading. Together with composer Ingo Hauss (U96), we built a world that existed only for one night — a breathing threshold of light, voice, and vibration.

In that space, myths returned not as relics, but as pulse. Each sound, each gesture, each silence carried a fragment of something older than belief. The performance became a rite of remembrance — not for what we’ve lost, but for what still calls to be found.

The Rauhnächte are not past. They live in the tension between shadow and renewal. They ask us to burn what has outlived its purpose and to tend to what still glows beneath the ash.

A Rite of Return

Rauhnächte is more than performance. It is a threshold. Through channeling, through art, we remember that myth is not dead — it only waits for someone to speak its name.

In this work, Maison Douce continues to explore the bridges between myth and modernity, between collective memory and individual transformation. To invoke Perchta is to remember the cycles that bind us all: life, death, return.

The night opens.
The air trembles.
She is here.