Across

Dates

30.07 — 31.07.2022

Description

The performance is set against the backdrop of the Asia Minor Catastrophe. Choristers, as passengers of a boat sailing in the Eastern Aegean Sea and heading to the Greek coasts, narrate – each one in their own musical language – memories of their past and homelands.

Rich and poor, old and young, daughters and mothers, some from Constantinople and Smyrna, others from Cappadocia, Pontus and the coast, one by one they all share known and unknown aspects of the everyday life they’re leaving behind.

In an abstractly natural space and using bodies and voices as a vehicle, the boat turns into an “arc” saving diverse musical references associated with a powerful common experience: the painful migration, the uprooting, the journey in search of a better life. The anticipation for the new land, the new motherland, a second chance at life.

Contributors

Artistic director: Marina Satti

Direction, research, dramaturgy: Giannis Panagopoulos

Score, music supervision: Antonis Apergis

Musical training, musical direction: Eirini Patsea

Choreography, movement coach: Markella Manoliadi, Stavros Ikbal

Costumes: Anna Sapka

Lighting designer: Sakis Birbilis

Sound design, sound engineering: Giannis Voulgaris

Onstage musicians: Andonis Apergis (guitar), Alexandros Fragoulatzis (percussion)

Performers: CΗÓRES: Anthi Efstathiou, Dimitra Giakoumaki, Maria Delaporta, Irini Zoutsou, Georgia Theologidou, Tonia Lappa, Emilia Papapetrou, Dania Stergiou, Eleni Tasopoulou, Eleni Chrysikou

NPO

WOMO