30 & 31 July, Temple of Apollo, Karditsa
Production: WOMO
Genre: Music
Time: 21.00
Duration: 60′
Pre-booking for 30th of July
Pre-booking for 31st of July
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.
Creative team
Artistic director: Marina Satti
Direction, research, dramaturgy: Giannis Panagopoulos
Score, music supervision: Antonis Apergis
Musical training, musical direction: Eirini Patsea
Choreography, movement: Markella Manoliadi, Stavros Ikbal
Costumes: Anna Sapka
Sound design, sound engineering: Giannis Voulgaris
Onstage musicians: Antonis Apergis (guitar), Giannis Poupoulis (percussion)
Performers: CΗÓRES: Anthi Efstathiou, Dimitra Giakoumaki, Maria Delaporta, Irini Zoutsou, Georgia Theologidou, Tonia Lappa, Emilia Papapetrou, Danai Stergiou, Eleni Tasopoulou, Eleni Chrysikou