The Black Journey

Dates

29.07 — 30.07.2022

Description

The Black Journey is the real life testimony of a young Greek man who was recruited to take part in the Asia Minor Expedition.

The bijoux de kant company talks about the vital needs, the hunger, the thirst and the cruelty  planted by war in the souls of all people, regardless of their nationality. It talks about the uprooting, the life of refugees, and the new cultural identity of Greece. In a field of memory, in a landscape of fragments, an unknown soldier of the Engineer Battalion vividly describes the wound of being uprooted and rewrites history.

The protagonist is accompanied by an Angel, his younger self, and eastern melodies of Asia Minor performed by a young girl from Athens, who sings to the Smyrnaean rhythms of a culturally new Greece.

Contributors

Text: by unknown author/ real life testimony
Concept, direction: Yannis Skourletis
Text adaptation: Asimenia Efthymiou
Sets, costumes: bijoux de kant
Painting: Maria Karabela
Performers: Thanasis Dovris, Vasilis Milionis and the musician Theodora Athanasiou
Heartfelt thanks for digging up the text are due to journalist Christos Paridis
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