SAHARA -THE DESERT PROJECT
THE BODY OF ENSEMBLE
IN COLLABORATION WITH ANU ALMAGRO & DIMITRIS VARKAS AND AN INTERNATIONAL CAST OF PERFORMERS.
Throughout the history the desert has been a place for contemplation. All the grand prophets went to the desert to seek enlightenment, transformation and the words. The desert appears as a place for retreat. Passing through the desert can also manifest itself as seeking for a "better" life. Many have travelled through the desert to reach the West. Many have lost their lives. Many have lost their families and friends.
A journey through the desert can give peace for the one who seeks it. It can be a place where one hides from the earthly distraction and gains a joyous, pure peace of the heart and mind. Spending time in the desert can be an ally for seeking spirituality. Or, the desert can present itself as a deadly trap; heat, the lack of water, sand storms, solitude and a bite of a scorpion have ended lives of many throughout time.
The desert surely is a place of hidden treasures. This dry land used to be fertile and feed civilisations. Now they lay there; forgotten, waiting to be uncovered, or maybe never to be found. Only the songs that occasionally travel the dunes, sung by the people of the desert, might carry the lost histories of past civilisations. These stories only can reveal the longing, losses and love of the generations before us.
26th-31st May 2015 Crete (Greece)
Devised by Ensemble
Directed by Anu Almagro
Performers: Lauren Hart, Anna Sophia Menato, Dimitris Varkas, Gabriel Almagro, Henry MacGrath, Ilona Krawczyk, Katarzyna Kapela, Kathi Nka, Ilona Krawczyk, Michail Fotopoulos and Theodoros Theodoridis and Henry McGrath
A journey through the desert can give peace for the one who seeks it. It can be a place where one hides from the earthly distraction and gains a joyous, pure peace of the heart and mind. Spending time in the desert can be an ally for seeking spirituality. Or, the desert can present itself as a deadly trap; heat, the lack of water, sand storms, solitude and a bite of a scorpion have ended lives of many throughout time.
The desert surely is a place of hidden treasures. This dry land used to be fertile and feed civilisations. Now they lay there; forgotten, waiting to be uncovered, or maybe never to be found. Only the songs that occasionally travel the dunes, sung by the people of the desert, might carry the lost histories of past civilisations. These stories only can reveal the longing, losses and love of the generations before us.
26th-31st May 2015 Crete (Greece)
Devised by Ensemble
Directed by Anu Almagro
Performers: Lauren Hart, Anna Sophia Menato, Dimitris Varkas, Gabriel Almagro, Henry MacGrath, Ilona Krawczyk, Katarzyna Kapela, Kathi Nka, Ilona Krawczyk, Michail Fotopoulos and Theodoros Theodoridis and Henry McGrath
