lacrimal

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.