The Roots of the Orange Tree

The performance The Roots of the Orange Tree is an artistic ritual that brings the female experience, as a carrier of memory, resilience, and creation, into the foreground. Traditional and electronic music, live performance, audiovisual media, and shadow puppet theatre intersect to recreate enduring women’s stories, forming a live audiovisual web where silence becomes significant and voice emerges through the body.

The female figure functions not only as a symbol but also as an active subject that reinvents tradition. Inspired by Chrysostomos Tsaprailis’ work Women Who Return and Fotis Varthis’ engravings, this performance transforms individual experiences into a collective narrative, reclaiming space for women in history and art – not as a shadowy memory but as a vibrant breath that propels the future forward, transforming silence into voice and experience into action.