The Curse of the Pine Tree
09.07 — 10.07.2023
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The Alcedo folk band, a company of acclaimed musicians founded in 2018 by Kostas Konstantatos (founding member of Encardia), presents an original audiovisual musical performance titled The Curse of the Pine Tree, based on Zacharias Papantoniou’s poem of the same title. It is a musical fairy tale that converses with inspired images and videos that will be accompanying the band’s original music and songs. Folk and sophisticated music with stories about nature and the environment from the Renaissance and the Middle Ages in the East and West to the technological world of today. The Alcedo folk band often appears unexpectedly in the videos too. The performance consists of twenty one images, just like Zacharias Papantoniou’s poem.
Giannis is a farmer working his land. He has identified his life with the life of a pine tree, planted there by his grandfather, and has been enjoying its rich gifts for years. However, at some point, he starts cutting the tree for its resin and then completely truncates it and sells the logs. After that, the tree takes revenge on him through its secret power…
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