Silence
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If something has been brutally banished from our current age of technology and information, that’s silence. The ever-present barrage of human activity causes endless noise. In addition to silence, the capacity to listen also seems to be fading away. However, what is silence? What dimensions can it assume?
In their latest piece, the RootlessRoot duo creates a world dedicated to silence and its power. They explore an unknown universe where silence communicates with all those listening carefully to it, with all those conversing with it and utilizing what it has to offer them.
Silence is treated as an absolute condition, confronting those who participate in it with the mystery of their own selves and the world at large. Sometimes as a place of reflection, critical thinking and memory, sometimes as a place of faith, prayer and encounter with the divine, silence becomes the space for movement before the actual movement or action.
Drawing material from philosophy, theology, poetry, literature and painting, the duo investigates the condition of silence as a medium of self-knowledge and an experiencing of the world. Via improvisations and exercises, the movement research will dictate the choreographic material and theatrical elements of this production.
Musical composition Vassilis Mantzoukis
Set and costume design Paris Mexis
Assistant to the set and costume designer Alegia Papageorgiou
Lighting design Perikles Mathiellis
Sound design – Sound engineer Christos Parapagidis
Scientific associate Kostas Vrachnos
Texts edited by Ioanna Nasiopoulou
Performers (in alphabetical order) Maria Bregianni, George Dereskos, Linda Kapetanea, Anastasis Karachanidis, Christos Strinopoulos, Alexandros Vardaxoglou
Executive production Polyplanity Productions / Yolanda Markopoulou, Vicky Strataki
Executive production assistant Nikos Charalampidis
Photographer Elina Giounanli
Co-production Athens Epidaurus Festival, RootlessRoot
Funded by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports
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