16-20.6.2010

Nine days of Celebration

Direction-Adaptation: Marina Mergou
Music- Sonic Arts: George Kartalos
Video Art-Lighting Design: Maria Athanasopoulou
Scenography-Costumes: Christina Costea
Choreography: Kiki Mpaka
Installation: BestBefore
Production Manager: Adamantia Fytili
Production: In Between


Performed by: Politimi Tzortzi Singer: Lamia Bedioui

In Between Arts Group, Direction: Marina Mergou

In Between Arts Group with the ritualistic performance ‘Nine Days of Celebration’ based on Margarita Limberaki’s ‘Women and Men, Lemnian Actions’ directed by Marina Mergou.

The Myth: Goddess Aphrodite punishes the women of Lemnos with fetor when they neglect her worship. As a result men avoid them and bring back women of the North. Lemnian women then decide to kill all the men of the island.

The Performance: The Woman begins a journey to another world, an initiation. She contemplates the past and the memory of the murder awakens. The murder of the Man, murder of the Self and the Purification, the Re-union. Personal memory and collective consciousness are bound together and the past is transformed into an eternal present in a show where ritual meets video art, live music and soundscapes.

Interdisciplinary Art’s Group In Between was formed in March 2002 by theatre director Marina Mergou and sonic artist George Kartalos. Main aim of the group is to experiment with form creating a theatrical performance technique that combines ritual, music and technology as well as to explore the boundaries of different art forms through collaborations with groups and individual artists from all over the world.

Video Art Performers :Alexandra Alevizou, Evangelia Varsami, Ioanna Vovou, Korina Theodoratou, Helen Konti, Christina Costea, Maro Melissari, Vasia Boura, Nina Natsolari, Athina Siouti, Marta Pancorbo, Αdamantia Fytili.