Metapolitefsi

Through her original gaze and simplicity of lyricism, Medie Megas has already gained her own audience. The rising choreographer returns with a new work, aiming to bring together the present with the recent past. Through interviews with people of the Polytechnic generation, through scattered memories and experiences, and at the same time through projections of archival material, she creates a narrative landscape. She is in search of a sense of collective identity and subjective understanding of life in a period dominated by prosperity and optimism. This is the third time the choreographer turns her gaze upon the sociopolitical context. In her first work, she bridged dance with the visual arts and literature seeking the “Poetic Asylum” claimed by art. Inspired by the discrediting of the media, “The Guard Dog” explored the transformation of the media’s role from checking the other powers to protecting them.

Being a conscious member of a generation called to deal with the unprecedented financial and value crisis in Greece, the choreographer attempts an exploratory dive in “Metapolitefsi”, a dive into a period that seems so close and yet so far. Movement, speech, and music are enlisted to access and illuminate the period of Metapolitefsi and the roots of today’s already faded hope.

Three women set out to take spectators back to their own stories, their own conflicts, their own somatic memory. Avoiding political slogans and easy conclusions, the work transforms poetic notions and ideas into dance forms, highlighting the body as a locus of concentrated experience and knowledge, as the most important subject of history.