EURIPIDES LASKARIDIS
Elenit
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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
DATES
FRANCE / Paris
Théâtre de la Ville at Le Centquatre
12-15 April 2023
SERBIA / Belgrade
Belgrade Dance Festival – Opera Madlenianum
29 March 2023
GREECE / Athens
Onassis Stegi
16-19 February 2023
CANADA / Montréal
FTA at Théâtre Jean-Duceppe
01-04 June 2022
ITALY / Ancona
Teatro delle Muse
10-11 March 2022
ITALY / Florence
Teatro della Pergola
04-05 March 2022
BELGIUM / Charleroi
Charleroi Danse
09 February 2022
BELGIUM / Liège
Festival Pays de danses – Théâtre de Liège
03-04 February 2022
FRANCE / Chambéry
Espace Malraux
19-20 October 2021
GREECE / Thessaloniki
Dimitria Festival – Βασιλικό Θέατρο
02 October 2021
NETHERLANDS / Amsterdam
Julidans – Rabozaal
1-2 July 2021
FRANCE / Lyon
Biennale de la Danse – Maison de la Danse
16 June 2021
PORTUGAL / Porto
Teatro Municipal do Porto – Teatro Rivoli
11-12 June 2021
BELGIUM / Brussels
Les Halles de Schaerbeek
06-07 March 2020
World première
GREECE / Athens
Onassis Stegi
28 November-01 December, 04-07 December 2019
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Conceived & Directed by Euripides Laskaridis
With: Amalia Kosma/Chrysanthi Fytiza, Chara Kotsali/Eirini Boudali, Manos Kotsaris/Foivos Symeonidis, Euripides Laskaridis, Thanos Lekkas/Konstantinos Georgopoulos/Michalis Valasoglou, Dimitris Matsoukas, Efthimios Moschopoulos, Giorgos Poulios, Michalis Valasoglou/Nikos Dragonas, Fay Xhuma/Eirini GeorgiouCostume 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 NikolaouTechnical Director: Konstantinos Margas
Rehearsal Light Technician : Vasilis Zidros, Tzanos Mazis, Giorgos Antonopoulos
Lighting Console Programmer : Giorgos Melissaropoulos
Sound Engineers : Kostis Pavlopoulos, Kostas MichopoulosProduction Manager: Rena Andreadaki
Project management and tour production: Simona Fremder
Osmosis Operations Coordinator: TooFarEastProductionsA 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 SportsIn 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.