TITANS
Euripides Laskaridis // OSMOSIS
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Exclusively for dance professionals and specialists, and Onassis Stegi Friends.
The limited number of seats are now reserved
Duration
50 minutes
Before the world’s beginning, two solitary beings live between darkness and the light. “TITANS” is a work by Euripides Laskaridis in honor of our every failed attempt to understand. There is a place where darkness meets the light.
In “TITANS”, the hilarious and the serious are constantly being interchanged, and ideas on how things should be have already been lost. Euripides Laskaridis envisions a universe older than the world, a time of the mind where even shadows are alive and things have no set or stable size. The tiniest of things become enormous. All time and all space can fit on stage, and surprises, excitement, and terror all spring – without warning – from the work’s details.
Center stage stand two solitary beings playing an endless game with no apparent purpose. Their laughter seems worrying, their worries laughable. And yet, their world is made from the same materials, feelings and thoughts as our own. Their failures are transformed into a defense of our own.
There is something that makes this admittedly absurd artistic language win over audiences, wherever it may go. It does so because behind all the ridiculousness and the irony lies an ever steadfast tenderness.
Photo: Elina Giounanli
Reviews:
- “In this work – one unique in terms of genre, quite unlike anything else – we find something that resembles the wonderment a child feels when first faced with the transformative, illusory, inventive power of theater. It’s a precious thing. […] How rare it is, how truly rare, to see a man talk about motherhood, in the first person, to literally take the subject into the body, to embody it, here with humor and exuberance, extravagance and respect. This daring approach in “TITANS”, though more discreet, is just as important as that taken to form. Hats off.”
– Catherine Lalonde, “Le Devoir” (30 May 2018)
- “Euripides Laskaridis’ “TITANS” sticks in the mind; when the curtain falls, the images presented by this Greek choreographer and performer keep rising over and again before your eyes. […] One watches “TITANS” with the voracious appetite of someone desperate for their fill of beauty. The images and actions Euripides Laskaridis creates and performs are conceptually rooted deep inside the art of the European Renaissance, the elaborate Byzantine mosaics at Ravenna, the captivating orientalist nostalgia of Gustav Klimt. The eyes of the audience gaze on, drawn to the stage, watching the slight sway of the swing or spying reflections on the convex mirror of some Flemish painter or the contemporary Anish Kapoor. This Greek performer seems to gather iconic relics from art history and blend them into a drink that distills the melancholy experienced by a being, one that performs and carries within it the stories of an entire world.”
– Nicola Arrigoni, “Sipario” (2 July 2019)
Credits
Direction, Choreography & Set Design
Euripides Laskaridis
Performed by
Euripides Laskaridis & Dimitris Matsoukas
Costume Design
Angelos Mentis
Original Music & Sound Design
Giorgos Poulios
Lighting Design
Eliza Alexandropoulou
Dramaturgy Consultant
Alexandros Mistriotis
Artistic Collaborators
Drossos Skotis, Diogenis Skaltsas, Simos Patieridis, Nikos Dragonas, Thanos Lekkas
Sound Design, Programming & Live Operation
Themistocles Pandelopoulos
Sound Installation & Live Operation
Nikolas Kollias & Kostis Pavlopoulos
Lighting Installation
Konstantinos Margas & Giorgos Melissaropoulos
Assistants to the Director
Dimitris Triandafyllou & Paraskevi Lypimenou
Assistant to the Set Designer & the Costumes Designer
Ioanna Plessa
Set Assistant on tour
Tzela Christopoulou
Trainee Production Assistants
Lisandra Caires & Samuel Esteves Querido
Coproducers Coordination
Elisabeth Tsouchtidi
Production & Tour Manager
Maria Dourou (2017-18)
Tour Managers
Simona Fremder (2018-19) & Gema Rollon Blanco (2019)
Tour Technical Director
Konstantinos Margas
Tour Production Assistant
Nikos Mavrakis – TooFarEast Productions (2019)
Photography
Elina Giounanli & Julian Mommert
Camera Operators
Stelios Keramidas, Samuel Esteves Querido & Dimitris Triandafyllou
Video Trailer edited by
Euripides Laskaridis
Coproduced by
Athens & Epidaurus Festival (GR), Théâtre de la Ville (FR), Eleusis 2021 –European Capital of Culture (GR), Festival TransAmériques (CA), Julidans (NL), Megaron Athens Concert Hall (GR), CCVF Guimarães (PR) & the OSMOSIS performing arts company (GR)
Also supported by
O Espaço do Tempo (PR), NEON (GR), Centre Culturel Hellenique (FR), Isadora & Raymond Duncan Dance Research Centre Μελετης (GR) & Aegean Airlines (GR)
Presented in collaboration with
EdM Productions – Rial & Eshelman
Created with the support of Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, as part of its New Settings #7 program
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