The great works – literary treasures – of Nikos Kazantzakis (Captain Michalis, The Rock Garden, Zorba the Greek) are a testament to the anguish of his proud spirit, from his deepest life experiences, the heat of emotion, the world’s blinding phantasmagoria, to his extreme decisions and his reflection on man’s destiny. The WORD of Nikos Kazantzakis is adapted into a dance-theater performance featuring the virtuoso dancers Giannis and Giorgos Megalakakis and their dance group, with live music, under the direction of actor Vasilis Vasilakis. 

 

In our strange times, with the values and principles of society being re-established, the word of Nikos Kazantzakis is as current as ever. It is man’s battle with the forces of material, spiritual and moral degeneration and the skills and virtues that lead us to look high, to fight, to create, and to desperately hope. With fifteen artists on stage (actor, singer, four musicians and nine dancers), The Word of Nikos Kazantzakis “With Timbrel and Dance” is structured as an ever changing performance, in contemporary terms, with kinetic and musical shifts, always within the solid cores of word and acting.The harmonious cooperation between the three art forms creates a whole that deeply expresses the richness of emotion of the great Greek thinker, so strongly associated with Crete… so strongly associated with the world.

 

Direction – Interpretation: Vasilis Vasilakis

Text Selection: Tonia Koumpa

Choreography: Kiki Baka

Cretan Dance: Giannis & Giorgos Megalakakis and their dance group