d.όpa/ dopamines of post Athenians

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 turns the blood (holy and sacred) into water?
Does the dance of post Athenians ends to trance or to Cretan maleviziotis?
Are we interested to past so that we can live the present?
Whose children are we?

Aerites Dance Company presents its new production, which has as central theme our ‘national-dancing’ identity.

As we deal with contemporary dance, we want to run back to our dance tradition, 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 complexed Greek-European identity is created, how is our daily life outlined, how all these function as vivid memory carriers and finally, can we dance all this stuff?

d.opa! was chosen from General Secretary of Youth to represent Greece in the 14th Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean that took place at Skopje on September 2009.
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