The Bacchae - Body Without the body 2021
Sat, Jul 31
|Former Industrial Park PLYFA,
The thread of the Bacchus myth - five actors, four axes, three languages, two sexes, one place narrate a god, two angels, three women, four points on the horizon.
Time & Location
Jul 31, 2021, 9:00 PM
Former Industrial Park PLYFA,, Koritsas 39, Athina 104 47, Greece
About the Event
They sing god in the midst of contradictions. They erase the course of Pentheus from the unholy to the sanctuary, from delusion to knowledge, from arrogance to suffering. They talk about Agave who, from ecstasy to madness, claiming the power of the female goddess falls down. The pulsating wildlife. They mourn the man who departs, the body that is detached. The remains of a body, the body without a body. They mourn for our little little pieces. A distance acrobatics, a circular need, a fight for the whole.
And my soul, other big and obvious, is happy to look for ...
the dance of Bacchus expresses the desire to communicate with the god Dionysus, a god mysterious, distant and accessible, distant and near, familiar and unfamiliar. Women of Lydia follow a priest of the god and bring with him the magic of Asia to Thebes who denies it.…