CHORUS: WE ARE HERE PREPARED FOR TRAGEDY
by Sofia Mavragani

CHORUS: WE ARE HERE PREPARED FOR TRAGEDY

by Sofia Mavragani

Conceived and directed by Sofia Mavragani

From 1 December 2023

A production situated on the dividing line between lecture, dance, concert and theatre, about tragedies worth living and not worth living. Starting from the chorus of ancient tragedies, the show raises contemporary concerns about collective action and its potential to shape critical interventions, press for social change, and demand the impossible. The star of the show is CHORUS.

The choreographer Sofia Mavragani, in collaboration with the group of performers, creates a heretical chorus to the music of Larry Gus about modern Greek tragedy. Choral odes and the views of important intellectuals of our time are brought together in a single, collective and at the same time original text. The melding of acting, dance, and performance produces a polyphonic and heterogeneous work that makes claims and accusations, and raises questions and doubts. How can one preserve one's autonomy at the same time as one is being redefined within a group? How can one function as a member of a social group and who decides who those members will be? Whose tragedy is worthy of mourning?

Production team
Original idea, direction and choreography: Sofia Mavragani
Dramaturgical advisor: Irene Moundraki
Academic associate: Elena Tzelepi
Artistic associate: Miranda Manasiadis
Music: Larry Gus (Panagiotis Melidis)
Costume design: Vassilia Rozana
Stage area: Thalia Ioannidou
Lighting design: Tasos Palaioroutas
Music coach: Melina Peonidou

Cast (in alphabetical order):
Black Morris (Kevin Zans Ansong), Antonis Antonopoulos, Georgina Chryskioti, Antigoni Fryda, Larry Gus (Panagiotis Melidis), Maria Tsima, Maria Vourou

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(*)  A strobe light is used in the performance