Part of: "Stones & Bones" | Online premiere at Onassis Channel, available for 24 hours
Dance

Stones & Bones | 2021-22

RootlessRoot

Dates

Prices

5 — 28 €

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

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

Information

Tickets

Onassis Stegi Friends presale: from 07 OCT 2021 17:00
General presale: from 13 OCT 2021, 17:00

Full price: 7, 12, 22, 28 €
Reduced, Friend & Groups 5-9 people: 10, 20, 22 €
Groups 10+ people: 9, 18, 20 €
Neighborhood residents: 7 €
People with disabilities, Unemployed: 5 €
Companions: 10€

Group ticket reservations at groupsales@onassis.org

How often are dance companies free to experiment with materials like marble? The world-class RootlessRoot choreograph the need we have to leave our mark on the world.

For their latest piece, “Stones and Bones”, RootlessRoot worked with the English sculptor Peter Randall-Page to create a performance about the transience of human existence. White marble – a material with metaphysical dimensions that constitutes the bedrock of European civilization – lies at the core of the work, even though its natural place lies inside majestic mountains, far outside theater convention.

In “Stones and Bones”, five female performers – dancing to an original score by Vassilis Mantzoukis – carve out a poem about the fragile nature of human existence and the need to leave our mark on the world.

Artist's note

I won’t lie
If I tell that
I search
Not knowing
What I am looking for


Art is as forceful as science
It just focuses on what we can’t measure

Why did nature come up with mortality?
How is it that
We live
And disappear
Before we have a chance to understand
The story of life?

Language and bodies
Can break
The arrow of time
Stretch the Boltzmann‘s
Almost always increasing entropy
Order and diversity
That are destined to become
Dead and cold universe

Stones
-The oldest memory-
Bones
-I start with more
And die with less-
4 women
3 stones
And IMAGINATION

This performance
It is about the stone
About memory
The Perception of time
The Scale of time
The Life of the stone
The Life of life
—RootlessRoot

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    Stones & Bones | RootlessRoot

The performance – an Onassis Stegi production – began rehearsals at the start of 2020 and was to have premiered in April that same year. Three weeks before its scheduled premiere on the Onassis Stegi Main Stage, all preparations came to a halt due to the pandemic, and this turn of events was repeated once more in the fall, when all performance venues in Greece were shuttered.

A filmed version of "Stones & Bones" was screened for 24 hours on the Onassis Foundation YouTube Channel.

Credits

  • Artistic Directors & Choreographers

    Rootlessroot - Linda Kapetanea, Jozef Fruček

  • Performed by

    Linda Kapetanea, Elena Topalidou, Iro Konti, Hyaejin Lee

  • Music Composition

    Vassilis Mantzoukis

  • Songs performed by

    Martha Frintzila

  • Musicians on Stage

    Vassilis Mantzoukis, Kostas Nikolopoulos, Nikos Papaioannou, Lampros Papanikolaou

  • Set Design & Visual Contributors

    Thomas Randall-Page, Peter Randall-Page

  • Set supervision

    Paris Mexis

  • Sound Design

    Christos Parapagidis

  • Sound Engineer

    Yiannis Skandamis

  • Light Design

    Periklis Mathiellis

  • Costumes Designer

    Isabelle Lhoas

  • Texts

    Jozef Fruček

  • Texts Editing

    Ioanna Nasiopoulou

  • Photography

    Alexandros Papathanasopoulos

  • Production Management & Touring

    Cultοpια

  • Supported by

    Iktinos Marmaron

  • Produced by

    Onassis Stegi

“Stones & Bones” tour is supported by Onassis Stegi - “Outward Turn” Cultural export program and funded by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports for its European tour production coordination

Additional Song "How Should I Your True Love Know" / Lyrics: The first of Shakespeare's Ophelia's ‘Mad Songs,’ “Hamlet,” Act IV Scene 5 (traditional music of unknown author)

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