the great nothing
or the loneliest place in the universe
by Antonia Economou
TZAMIA KRYSTALLA
from 5/2 until 28/2 Thursday Friday and Saturday at 21.00
In the great nothing -a vast void of emptiness or the loneliest place in the universe - all things look familiar, yet not all the same. A broken triptych immortalized in space and time - where the strange become the ordinary without surprise and desire and terror thrive side by side.
In this darkness, dreams are the midnight movies of the mind that narrate their riddles to the blind. Front is back, up is down, the end is the beginning and the distance between near and far is distorted. What is visible dissolves into shadow and the present is fragmented to the pieces of a haunted past.
Fear of the void and of loss can fill a house with ghosts that live in many worlds - the real, the remembered, the imagined. Confined figures - await isolated in existential cages, where the body becomes the only site of memory - suspended between what once was and what never happened.
Choreographer's note:
The inspiration behind this piece comes from the Boötes Void, or "The Great Nothing." It is one of the largest known "voids" and perhaps the most lonely region in the observable universe. A supervoid, an extensive cosmic absence, characterized by an extremely low density of galaxies. As in this cosmic void, nothingness is not empty but is characterized by darkness and vast distances, as is separation or abrupt loss. The great nothing is for me a space without space - like the solitary and isolated "cages" I feel we currently inhabit- and are relentlessly called to forget - numbed and immobilized.CREDITS
Concept / Direction/ Choreography: Antonia Economou
Material performed and devised by : Aggelos Prekatsounakis, Pavlos Lykoudis, Antonia Economou, Mary Chandrinou
Music composition: Dimitris Kalamaras
Sound design/ sound dramaturgy: Celia Tsioufi
Scenic design/construction: Hector Karavas
Stage design curation: Lydia Lampropoulou
Designs: Niki Pekiaridi, Philias Divaris
Light design: Vangelis Mountrichas
Costumes: Konstantinos Chaldaios
Dramaturgy: Marina Xenaki
Production assistant: Daphne Patsourakou
Production management: Lydia Lampropoulou
Assistant choreographer/director: Mary Chandrinou
Trailer: Kostas Fountas
Montage: Antonia Economou
Film documentation/ cinematography: Christos Adrianopoulos
Visual design: Zoe Kravvariti
Artistic direction: Antonia Economou
Communication: True Colours Comms
Production: ERGO
Antonia Economou short bio
Antonia Economou is a dancer and choreographer. Her academic engagement with art history, combined with her movement practices, play a decisive role in her work, fostering an ongoing dialogue between cinema, visual arts and the creation and dramaturgy of images on stage. She explores themes of decay, decadence, and the complexity of the human mind, illuminating spaces where the boundaries between the real and the imagined begin to blur. Her most recent dance-theatre work, ATITLON (2024-2025), received warm critical acclaim and was presented in sold-out performances in Athens. Her short films, I WONDER YES I CONFESS I WONDER and SCOTÓMA, have been awarded and selected in 17 international film festivals. In 2024, she founded Tzamia Krystalla, a performance space in Athens.
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