Streams & Overflows

With Streams & Overflows, Harris Gkekas initiates a series of works entitled “DEFINIR/INFINIR”, which highlights the inseparable link between consciousness and freedom. “Streams & Overflows, the first in this series, questions the vitality and playfulness of academic vocabulary. The metaphor of water seems apt to me, because before flowing freely at high speed to the point of overflowing, currents have a source as their initial point. In our case, the source is the academic vocabulary and its infinite possibilities due to its precision. The definition of what is at stake is approached as a tool for both analysis and composition. Rigorous but not austere, our proposal will be guided by the pleasure, vertigo, playfulness and intoxication inherent in the overflowing nature of academic vocabulary, in order to unleash the potential of our strengths and desires. A call full of energy, like the wild waters, their brilliance and vitality. Keith Jarret’s album, Book of Ways, and his harpsichord improvisations, demonstrate how the source of J.S. Bach’s Baroque heritage flows naturally into his playing today. A great stylist whose impact on the world of dance is comparable to that of J.S. Bach on music, William Forsythe gave classical dance an innovative outlook. His impulse is still alive in me. Free and joyful as the swift waves, the playful spirit he succeeded in instilling will, I’m sure, live on for generations to come.