D.opa! [Dopamines of post-Athenians]

Aerites Dance Company presents its production d.opa ,which holds the Greek ‘national dancing’ identity as its central theme.

A praise for Greece. 
How many ‘Opa!’ do we need to whisper until we get up?
 How much should we dope ourselves until we feel nationally proud?
How much history should we read until we smile?
 After how many generations does the blood (holy and sacred) turn into water?
 Does the dance of the post Athenians end in clubbing Trance or in the Cretan maleviziotis?
 Are we interested in the past so that we can live the present?
 Whose children are we?
Aerites Dance Company presents its production d.opa ,which holds our Greek ‘national dancing’ identity as its central theme.
As we deal with contemporary dance, we want to run back to our dance traditions, so as to enrich our kinetic vocabulary and search why street dance may remind us of the Cretan pentozalis and what that means for us.
Does our kinetic language obey to a genetic code influenced by our history? Is there a dance DNA? And if so, where and in which ways is it translated?
Besides, the performance aims to examine what is left from the past, what is mixed with the present reality, how the complex Greek-European identity is created, how is our daily life outlined, how all these function as vivid memory carriers, and finally, can all this be physically danced?

Source : Aerites website

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