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EUROPIUM

ROOTLESSROOT - STADSSCHOUWBURG AMSTERDAM - January 16 & 17, 2018

CONTRIBUTORS 

 

Concept & Direction

Rootlessroot - Linda Kapetanea & Jozef Fruček

 

Visual Concept and Set Design

Jozef Fruček

 

Music Composition

Vassilis Mantzoukis 

 

Dramaturgy

Martin Kubran   

 

Sound Engineer

Christos Parapagkidis

 

Light Design

Sofia Alexiadou

 

Lighting Engineer

Periklis Mathiellis

 

Costumes

Isabelle Lhoas

 

Created & Performed by: 

Manuel Ronda,

Jacob Ingram-Dodd, Konstantina Eythimiadou, Paul Blackman,

Linda Kapetanea  

 

 

 

Production Management 

Konstantinos Sakkas

 

Production Toured by:

Delta Pi

INFO 

 

When:           

January 16 & 17, 2018

8pm

Where:       

Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam

Venue:

Rabozaal, Leidseplein 26, Amsterdam,

The Netherlands

DESCRIPTION

 

''The European culture is not homogenous. Right now it is this: explosive and playful Europium. Surprising and volatile chemical element of dance that can’t be confined. The choreographers master the meditative, seemingly timeless, moments equally with the fierce and violent outbursts. The dancers are acrobatic and supple. This kind of controlled and restrained energy and balancing in the very extremes is very seldom experienced''.
 
Eeva Kauppinen (Kaleva Newspaper) 
 

— Director's note:
This project is part of our reflections on what is called ‘western culture’ and ‘western world’. Although we come from different countries, Greece and Slovakia, our European origin, with its contrasts, remains common. In the same time, we feel free to reveal our identity and provide the current artistic landscape with our own colors since we consider this to be the only way to diversity and diversity as a sign of health. This is the way we move, the way we dance and the way we deal with the world. We are dynamic and totally absorbed in whatever our senses can perceive and our bodies can achieve.

 

While working and researching for Europium, we read many stories and myths about the origins of the European culture. The story of the raft of the Medusa, though, with its horrible chain of events, seemed to us, until today, the clearest story about Europe. At first, we didn’t want to focus our work on that event. But as time went by, so many relevant events happened in the Aegean and the Mediterranean seas that we just couldn’t ignore them. We thought that in the core of what we call the "nature of our culture" lies the problem of defining the values of our society and the mechanisms used to promote, impose and defend them.

 

But that is also the issue every society and culture has to deal with: answer how life is worth living, how is worth dying, what is important and what is not, for all as a group and each as a person. What is considered a success and what is considered a failure. What and who we believe affirms and endorses or threatens and goes against the values of our culture and how we treat those.

Linda Kapetanea & Jozef Fruček

EUROPIUM premiered in 2015 at the Oulu City Theater, Finland credited to: 

 

Poduced by: Onassis Cultural Centre-Athens

Co-produced by: JoJo-Oulu Dance Center

Created by: RootlessRoot

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