The stage is on an incline, covered with removable charcoal grey plates, evoking the substrata of a cemetery or a geological site. Trap doors are opened at will; the earth shifts and undulates. The bodies of the performers disappear into the bowels of the earth. With this black and white fable, there is an orgy of images. The Greek artist, Dimitris Papaioannou, stages the tension between life and our demise. Without beginning or end, this dreamlike creation evokes ancient and modern myths, conjuring up masterpieces of visual art in an ode to the most powerful of creators: death. The chaos of the world has never been so poetic.
