laquoLABYRINTHraquo from darkness into light Pallas Theatre Athens Greece May 2016

CREDITS Director artistic conception Pavlos Kourtidis Concept Giannis amp Giorgos Megalakakis Choreography Giannis Megalakakis Pavlos Kourtidis Giorgos Megalakakis

Onstage dancers (Crete) Giannis Megalakakis Giorgos Megalakakis Giannis Pidiktakis Christos Vlachopoulos Christos Petrakis Giorgos Sidiropoulos Panagiotis Diamantoglou Spyros Lolis Adam Kokkinogenis Nikoleta Kourkouta Peggy Barouni Maria Karela Pelagia Piperaki Gogo Livieri Evi Androulaki

Onstage dancers (Contemporary Dance) Pavlos Kourtidis Zoi Sotiropoulos Angelos Antonakos Christos Kafetzis Ioanna Korina Palaska Iris Paulou Katraki Olia Mourouzidou Eirini Zatta Anastasia Kontopidi Dimitris Antonopoulos Ioannis Damianos Stephos

Μusicians Vasilis Tsentouros Drums Giorgos Kontoyiannis Lyre Dimitris Varelopoulos Lute Andreas Arvanitis Lute-Bagpipes-Thiampoli (Fipple flute) Marino Tranoudakis Daouli (Davul drum)

Original musical compositions (modern) Vasilis Tsentouros Orchestration (Traditional) Giorgos Kontoyiannis Sets Dimitra Papadimitriou Costumes Christina Leontiadou Lighting Apostolos Tsitsonis Assistant choreographer Zoi Sotiropoulou Makeup artist Foteini Makridou Coordination of productionSofia Karayianni e-mail sofiakarayiannigmailcom

The creators of the performance Pavlos Kourtidis having a rich bibliography creates performances for many years Among those stand out House Of Bridges (2015-2016) Trelospito (Insane House) (2014-2015) Deadend (2012-2013) Frankenstain (2010-2011) Society says (2009-2010) presented in Egypt Alexandria-Sayed Darwish Theater and Cairo-El Gomhouria Theatre) etc Recently (2015) he initiated performances whose proceeds were offered to humanitarian assistance (Doctors of the World Greece)

Giannis and Giorgos Megalakakis have devoted their lives to research teaching and dissemination of the Cretan dances They have appeared at the closing ceremony of the

Athens Olympic Games in 2004 and in the years that followed they have presented with their Dance Group original performances in Greece and abroad in order to highlight the Cretan dance as a world cultural monument They have issued rare audiovisual material on Cretan dances and have conducted more than 150 seminars on Cretan dances in Greece and abroad

The Cretan virtuoso dancers Giannis and Giorgos Megalakakis and director-choreographer Pavlos Kourtidis intoduce the dance theatre performance LABYRINTH from darkness into light at Pallas Theater in Athens on the occasion of the anniversary of the historic battle of Crete Main goal is to highlight the cultural characteristics of the island

For the first time Cretan and Modern dance steps are combined to offer a unique spectacleescape in an original attempt to visualize the culture of Crete through the art of orchestral and theatrical conception

Onstage twenty seven dancers and five musicians unite their talent art worldview and their souls to offer their very own art thread to the viewer that will lead them albeit for just a few hours away from the maze reality of everyday life and beyond any individual impasses

It is a challenge to find yourself confronted with your own culture while you depict it though movement and image at the same time It is an enormous responsibility because lsquoLabyrinthrsquo is a journey into the very heart of our culture says director Pavlos Kourtidis

It is a meeting with our ancestors and a bridge of communication with the future The primeval history of our dance steps illuminate the darkness of the Labyrinth (maze) we face at all times say Giannis amp Giorgos Megalakakis

Stories from Cretan tradition history (Taurokathapsia (bull-leaping) Daskalogiannis) traditional rhyming couplets (mantinades) myths (the Ariadnes Thread) and music (Andreas Rodinos) become one with the Pyrrhic Geranos and Orsiti the primeval folk dances that evolve and are redefined in the present through the parallel Action and recuperative energy of modern dance following a singular directorial idea

The music is composed exclusively for the show and is a blend of traditional Cretan music and fresh sounds that reflect the trends of our time Viewers are confronted with a realistic Labyrinth depicting the primitive and the renovation - the past and the present Complex versatile and yet so familiar

Grounding takeoff ritual spiral improvisation are the words that characterize Cretan dance and the LABYRINTH is a journey into the heart of our culture

Contact info

Pavlos Kourtidis tel +30 210 9011677 M +30 6977664272 site wwwpktheatergr e-mail infopktheatergr Giannis Megalakakis tel +30 6971870962 site wwwmegalakakisgr e-mail gmegalhotmailcom

Athens Olympic Games in 2004 and in the years that followed they have presented with their Dance Group original performances in Greece and abroad in order to highlight the Cretan dance as a world cultural monument They have issued rare audiovisual material on Cretan dances and have conducted more than 150 seminars on Cretan dances in Greece and abroad

The Cretan virtuoso dancers Giannis and Giorgos Megalakakis and director-choreographer Pavlos Kourtidis intoduce the dance theatre performance LABYRINTH from darkness into light at Pallas Theater in Athens on the occasion of the anniversary of the historic battle of Crete Main goal is to highlight the cultural characteristics of the island

For the first time Cretan and Modern dance steps are combined to offer a unique spectacleescape in an original attempt to visualize the culture of Crete through the art of orchestral and theatrical conception

Onstage twenty seven dancers and five musicians unite their talent art worldview and their souls to offer their very own art thread to the viewer that will lead them albeit for just a few hours away from the maze reality of everyday life and beyond any individual impasses

It is a challenge to find yourself confronted with your own culture while you depict it though movement and image at the same time It is an enormous responsibility because lsquoLabyrinthrsquo is a journey into the very heart of our culture says director Pavlos Kourtidis

It is a meeting with our ancestors and a bridge of communication with the future The primeval history of our dance steps illuminate the darkness of the Labyrinth (maze) we face at all times say Giannis amp Giorgos Megalakakis

Stories from Cretan tradition history (Taurokathapsia (bull-leaping) Daskalogiannis) traditional rhyming couplets (mantinades) myths (the Ariadnes Thread) and music (Andreas Rodinos) become one with the Pyrrhic Geranos and Orsiti the primeval folk dances that evolve and are redefined in the present through the parallel Action and recuperative energy of modern dance following a singular directorial idea

The music is composed exclusively for the show and is a blend of traditional Cretan music and fresh sounds that reflect the trends of our time Viewers are confronted with a realistic Labyrinth depicting the primitive and the renovation - the past and the present Complex versatile and yet so familiar

Grounding takeoff ritual spiral improvisation are the words that characterize Cretan dance and the LABYRINTH is a journey into the heart of our culture

Contact info

Pavlos Kourtidis tel +30 210 9011677 M +30 6977664272 site wwwpktheatergr e-mail infopktheatergr Giannis Megalakakis tel +30 6971870962 site wwwmegalakakisgr e-mail gmegalhotmailcom