Absolute Bach Re-invented

Conductor Kristjan Järvi
Absolute Composers: Daniel Schnyder, Tom Trapp, Charles Coleman, Gene Pritsker, Matt Herskowitz and Mike Block.

With a Grammy nomination and the German Record Critics Prize to its name, the Absolute Ensemble can pride itself on the fact that today, it has made a great stir in serious music circles with its recordings.

LEFTERIS VOGIATZIS/ NEA SKINI
Two leading lights of contemporary Greek drama: Lefteris Vogiatzis, in his directorial début at Peiraios 260, directs Dimitris Dimitriadis’ latest play.
Four women and four men are celebrating the birth of a child and the birthday of its mother. As the playwright puts it: “Fertility, chiefly that of [...]

Though tropicalismo, the art movement that brought about a Brazilian music revolution in the Sixties, may now seem a long way off, its controversial leader has never stopped striving towards the utopian dream it brought into being. Making friends and enemies and reinventing himself and his image along the way, Caetano [...]

A work for 8 dancers and 2 musicians
Catherine Diverrès emerged on the French dance scene during the 1980s as she sought to chart her own route through a decade intent on questioning and breaking with the past. Her dance remains restless and is imbued with a singular poetic vigour. This [...]

Attis Theatre – Theodoros Terzopoulos
Prometheus, a mythic figure who forged the origins of European culture, approached through a collaboration between three theatre companies in three countries: the Attis theatre from Greece, Rimini Protokoll from Germany, and Studio Oyuncuları from Turkey. Performances will be staged in Athens, Essen and Istanbul (European [...]

Spyros A. Evangelatos Amphi-Theatre
In his search for Laius’ murderer, whose presence -according to the Delphic oracle- has polluted Thebes and caused the catastrophic plague, King Oedipus discovers the thread connecting his life with the cursed house of the Labdacides.
Patricide and incestuous, father and brother to his children and husband to [...]

How to Forget in 10 Steps [Anti-Prometheus]
Şahika Tekand, founder of Studio Oyuncuları (1990) and a highly respected actress and performer in Turkey, has described her collaboration with Theodoros Terzopoulos as a significant driving force in her work.
Her contemporary version of Prometheus charts the tragedy of a modern man who, [...]

Replica
Jonah Bokaer is an award-winning choreographer and media artist. Ηis latest work, Replica, is produced in collaboration with the dancer Judith Sánchez Ruíz and the artist Daniel Arsham. Together they play a game with the perceptual faculties of the viewer, while a white cube acts as an intermediary between the [...]