Concept/ Choreography: Margarita Trikka
Performers: Candy Karra, Chara Kotsali
Dramaturgy: Dimitra Mitropoulou
Original Music: Sancho 003
Costumes: Artemis Flessa
Light Design: Nikos Vlasopoulos
Video / photos: Manos Arvanitakis
"This is the sadness which adheres to all mortal life,
a sadness, however, which never attains reality, but only serves the everlasting joy of overcoming. Whence, the veil of depression, of heavy-heartedness which is spread out across the whole of the nature, hence the profound, indestructible melancholy of all life." Schelling, Treatise on the essence of human freedom (1809)
Few words for the piece
George Steiner, in his essay ‘Ten (possible) reasons for the sadness of thought’, takes as a principle that thinking is feeling sad and proves it by mentioning ten paradoxes of human thought that lead to melancholy. So, based on this essay, the group focuses on researching kinetically the operation of thought and presenting the tragicomic of the human mind. It is about a duet that forms a system, which operates as whole; it is never apart and has a continual, circular and spiral movement, always in the same direction.Τhis trajectory that a body lines out in space and time, which is definitely related to the laws of centripetal and centrifugal, forms the kinetic base of the piece. We perceive our mind as a microcosm, where if we zoom in, we see two little humans in the hour of duty. Suddenly the landscape changes and the system of thought transforms to a system of two humans, who lie in a situation of agony and enthusiasm. And like this, the intellectual becomes sentimental and human, reminding that whatever spins around our head are us. In an era of sweeping sadness the Trajectory: Α tragedy of a victory researches the operation of thought in general and specifically our beliefs, the compulsion of thought, interjections, the thinking clichés, connotations and after all it wonders itself if thinking is feeling sad indeed. If thinking imprisons or sets free.