442 or a Game Without Score by Stereo Nero Dance Co. | In the context of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 8

What is it you think about when you think about soccer? Green pitches, shots at goal, and sweat-drenched shirts around a black-and-white goddess of a ball? Or maybe pricey contracts, corruption, hooligans, smashed in shop fronts and broken cash registers? The Stereo Nero Dance Co. goes beyond such dilemmas to formulate a staged poetic treatment of soccer, approaching it as a playful allegory for passions, desires, and collective undertakings of all kinds.

“Football is about so many things: memory, history, place, social class, gender (especially masculinity, but increasingly femininity too), family identity, tribal identity, national identity, the nature of groups. It is essentially collaborative, even socialist, yet it exists in a sump of greed, corruption, capitalism and autocracy.” In his book “What We Think About When We Think About Football”, the philosopher Simon Critchley attempts to make sense of it all and to establish a system of aesthetics – even poetics – of soccer.

Credits

Direction & Choreography: Evi Souli

Rehearsal Director: Katerina Foti

Original Music: Jan Van de Engel

Dramaturgy: Gina Stavroulaki

Dramaturgy Consultant: Prodromos Tsinikoris

Set Design: Marilena Georgantzi

Lighting Design: Marietta Pavlaki

Costumes: 2WO+1NE

Production Management: Stereo Nero Dance Co. / Katerina Foti

Line Production: Alexandra Foti

Performers & Co-creators: Vasilis Arvanitakis, Ilias Bageorgos, Katerina Foti, Dimitris Kitsos, Christiana Kosiari, Dimitris Lagos, Konstantinos Papanikolaou, Dimokritos Sifakis, Alexandros Stavropoulos, Aineias Tsamatis, Kostas Tsoukalas

Filming Credits
Directed by Christos Sarris
Director of Photography: Evan Maragoudakis
Sound: Panagiotis Papagiannopoulos
Boom Operator: Manolis Makridakis
Cameras: Dimitris Zivopoulos, Koralia Dogani, Philipos Zamidis
Camera Assistant: Andreas Markou
Colorist: Manthos Sardis
Sound Mix: Costas Chrysogelos
Editing: Nikos Pastras
Production Coordination: Elena Choremi, Smaragda Dogani
Production Coordination Support: Angelika Stavropoulou