5-6 NOV 2015
DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU STILL LIFE
Biljetter & info
Stora scen
Under a gigantic cloud of smoke, the dancers emerge out of nowhere. Then they disappear just as mysteriously as they arrived. Still Life speaks both to our emotions and our senses, spiriting us away to a dazzlingly beautiful symbolic world. Welcome to a performance filled with mystique, meaning and optical illusions.
Inspired by the Greek myth of Sisyphus, who was condemned to roll an immense boulder in front of him, the performance Still Life is a magnificent, meditative experience. It addresses both hard toiling as well as mankind’s search for meaning.
Greek choreographer Dimitris Papaioannou made his international breakthrough by creating the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2004 Olympics in Athens. An aesthete to the core, his set designs are often immense stage constructions. Papaioannou began his career as an artist and his work can be seen as living paintings – always with a strong visual expression. Still Life is no exception.
MEDVERKANDE
Visual concept, direction, costume & lighting design
Dimitris Papaioannou
On stage
Prokopis Agathokleous, Drossos Skotis, Costas Chrysafidis, Christos Strinopoulos, Kalliopi Simou, Pavlina Andriopoulou, Dimitris Papaioannou
Sound composition
Giwrgos Poulios
Sets designed in collaboration with
Dimitris Theodoropoulos & Sofia Dona
Sets adapted for the tour by
Thanassis Demiris
Sculpture design & set painting by
Nectarios Dionysatos
Costumes designed in collaboration with
Vassilia Rozana
Creative producer & assistant director
Tina Papanikolaou
Assistant director & rehearsal director
Pavlina Andriopoulou
Tour manager
Julian Mommert
Technical director & production manager
Georgios Bambanaras
Lighting director & programmer
Menelaos Orfanos
Sound installation design
Konstantinos Michopoulos
Stage manager
Dinos Nikolaou
Assistant to the set designer
Marina Leventaki
Assistant to the sculptor
Ioanna Plessa
Assistant lighting programmer
Evina Vassilopoulou
Assistant sound engineer
Nikos Kolias
Stage technicians
Gerasimos Soulis & Manos Vitsaxakis
Created at & produced by the Onassis Cultural Centre—Athens. Tour produced by 2WORKS with the support of the Onassis Cultural Centre—Athens and the help of Elisabetta di Mambro at Change Performing Arts. Tour travel sponsor Aegean Airlines
