RELIC [2015] was a domestic scene, its lone mortal lost in a terrestrial world after the end of reason.
TITANS [2017] created an alien space for two, its co-dependent deities inhabiting a metaphysical realm in a time before reason.
The new tragic comedy by Euripides for 2019 – ELENIT – further expands this universe. An ensemble piece for ten creatures and a wind turbine, ELENIT forgoes all reason to forge a space without past or future. A monumental system interested only in the urgency of the moment. A place where the things we know we knew are now behind.
Costume Design: Angelos Mentis
Music & Sound Design: Giorgos Poulios
Set Design: Loukas Bakas
Lighting Design: Eliza Alexandropoulou
Dramaturgy Consultant: Alexandros Mistriotis
Associate Movement Director: Nikos Dragonas
Assistant Director : Geli Kalampaka
Assistant to the Composer: Jeph Vanger
Assistant Costume Designer & Special Constructions : Ioanna Plessa
Artistic Collaborator – Special Constructions : Anna Papathanasiou
Assistant to the Costume Designer : Aella Tsilikopoulou
Assistant to the Set Designer : Filanthi Bougatsou
Stage Manager and Assistant to the Set Designer : Dinos Nikolaou
Production Manager: Rena Andreadaki
Project management and tour production: Simona Fremder
Osmosis Operations Coordinator: TooFarEastProductions
A project by Euripides Laskaridis // Osmosis
Produced by Onassis Stegi-Athens (GR)
Supported by the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès within the framework of the New Set-tings Program
Coproduced by Théâtre de la Ville-Paris (FR), Teatro della Pergola-Florence (IT), Pôle européen de création – Ministère de la Culture/Maison de la Danse en soutien à la Biennale de la danse de Lyon 2020 (FR), Teatro Municipal do Porto (PT), Festival TransAmériques-Montreal (CA), Les Halles de Schaerbeek-Brussels (BE), Teatre Lliure-Barcelona (ES), Malraux, Scène Νationale Chambéry-Savoie (FR),Théâtre de Liège (BE), Julidans-Amsterdam (NL), Bonlieu Scène Nationale Annecy (FR)
In collaboration with ICI—Centre Chorégraphique National Montpellier – Occitanie (FR)
Funded by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports
In association with EdM Productions and Rial&Eshelman
Premiere: November 2019, Onassis Stegi, Athens
ELENIT’s tour receives the generous support of Onassis Culture / STEGI’s “Outward Turn” Cultural Export Program.
Press
“This performance – neurotic and comic, tragic and sarcastic – continues to add words to the vocabulary and language created by Euripides Laskaridis, a language that is obscure yet familiar, remote yet moving. It gifts audiences with the freedom of distance, allowing them to draw the line and observe, then cross the line and connect. The heroes of this world stand way over there, calling on you to explore, to desire, to feel the inexplicable. Following on from TITANS, ELENIT is a magnificent gesture towards the understanding of a monstrous world, another bright light in the creative development of this important contemporary Greek artist.”
— ARGYRO BOZONI // ElCulture
“This irrational world – fuelled by painting and opera, musicals and ancient tragedy, as well as club culture and film – is born out of simple materials. Everyday images and situations are subjected to constant transformations that render them dense and unfamiliar. The work is an absurd journey: phantasmagoric and ridiculous, enigmatic and disquieting. A journey through landscapes that bleed one into another without explanation, in a world made of ruins that nevertheless still stands – and captivates.”
— MARO VASSILIADOU // I Kathimerini
“Every once in a while an art form is born, particularly of the “Greek” variety: singular and unclassifiable, it bursts with images and ideas. An art form daring enough to lay these open to the extreme, but by means of an utterly controlled and dazzling aesthetic. One that does not seek to signify or to explain and yet disarms you, wins you over…”
— VENA GEORGAKOPOULOU // I Efimerida ton Syntakton
“In lieu of a male-dominated universe made of muscles, perfectly-performed movements and classical harmony, Laskaridis brings excess and caricature, buffoonery and scandalous vulgarity that echo the slip-ups and gaffes of burlesque or drag.”
— NIKOS XENIOS // BookPress
“Quite simply another world. Absolutely mesmerising. […A] show categorised – by necessity – as dance. And dance it is, but it is also theatre and performance, happening and visual installation – a work beyond definition. And thus unique.”
— YORGOS SARIYIANNIS // To Tetarto Koudouni
