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What’s On3rd Young Choreographers Festival
Part of: 3rd Young Choreographers Festival

lacrimal

Harry Koushos

Dates

Prices

4 — 7 €

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Wednesday-Thursday
Time
20:30
Venue
Main Stage

Information

Tickets

Full price: 7 €
Reduced/Small groups (5-9 people): 6 €
Large groups (10+ people), People with disabilities, Unemployed: 4 €
Companions: 7 €

Duration

45 minutes

Nine musicians and 40 dancers explore the expressive power of lament, initiating the public in a disarming and awakening experience. Composer Dimitrios Skyllas and choreographer Harry Koushos come together in a journey, whose final destination is catharsis itself.

Photo: Paris Tavitian

Two bold artists of the younger generation, composer Dimitrios Skyllas and choreographer Harry Koushos, come together for the first time to create a work that comments on the timeliness of tradition, and on our relationship with the history of our place. "lacrimal" explores the expressive power of lament, as well as the images evoked by sounds that are deeply rooted in our unconscious. Nine musicians on stage and forty dancers take part in this ‘journey’, seeking the forgotten live dialogue between music and movement.

The forty dancers resemble an anonymous crowd, a mass left to the uninterrupted flow of movement, alluding to scenes of mass migration. This unending travelogue takes place linearly and consistently. Without overtly focusing on the music, it allows the spectator to think freely about movement. As the crowd moves away, seven bodies remain naked on stage, recalling an archetypal space, or an alarmingly futuristic one. The stage ‘language’ is both elliptical and dense. It aims at an ‘interior rhythm’ that, in reaching a climax, gradually brings to both the performers and the audience the cathartic union of music and dance.

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Parellel event

THURSDAY 24 MARCH | 23:00

After the last performance, a talk will be held with the participating artists.
Moderated by Christiana Galanopoulou, art historian & artistic director of MIRfestival

Credits

  • Choreography

    Harry Koushos

  • Composition

    Dimitrios Skyllas

  • Music Direction

    Andreas Tselikas

  • Sets, Lighting

    Dimitris Nasiakos

  • Assistant Choreographer

    Mina Lampropoulou

  • Dancers

    Georgios Kotsifakis, Ioanna Apostolou, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, Ioanna Toumpakari, Katerina Spyropoulou, Nontas Damopoulos, Periklis Skordilis

  • Musicians

    Giannis Samprovalakis (clarinet), Costas Siskos (horn), Andreas-Roland Theodorou (trombone), Thodoris Iosifidis (piano), Spyros Lampouras (percussion), Costas Panagiotidis (violin), Giannis Romanos (viola), Vasilis Lykos (cello), Takis Kapogiannis (double bass)

  • Dancing crowd

    Katerina Archodaki, Gabriela Antonopoulou, Anastasia Valsamaki, Marianna Varvianni, Sathis Doganis, Elina Zepou, Nikos Kalyvas, Myrto Katsou, Faidora Kolozi, Konstantina Koutsaftaki, Hara Kyriakopoulou, Alexandra Kostopoulou, Andrew Labner, Evripides Makris, Fotini Markopoulou, Alexandros Metaxas, Giorgos Mihelakis, Konstantina, Barkouli, Ioanna Bisbi, Alexandros Papaioannou, Maria Pasalidou, Panagiotis Politis, Ivi Riga, Stella Spyrou, Giannis Tsigkris, Vaso Florou, Anna Foskolou, Katerina Foti, Katerina Haida, Marilia Haremi, Myrto Haritaki, Kimon Haritakis, Mari Christopoulou

  • Production

    Onassis Stegi

  • Production execution

    Dance Unitiva

  • Supported by

    the House of Cyprus and Dance Cultural Centre

  • Many thanks to

    Alexandros Diakosavvas, Giorgos Koumentakis, Evangelia Rantou, Thanasis Fotiou, Kallirroi Papadopoulou, Katerina Archontaki, Rena Andreadaki, Froso Trousa, Giorgos Kollidas, Odysseas I. Konstantinou

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