Theodoros terzopoulos biography sample
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Fragments of Thought About the Tragic Fragments: Theodoros Terzopoulos' Views on Fragmentary Greek Tragedy
Fragments of Thought About the Tragic Fragments: Theodoros Terzopoulos’ Views on Fragmentary Greek Tragedy critical-stages.org/24/fragments-of-thought-about-the-tragic-fragments-theodoros-terzopoulos-views-onfragmentary-greek-tragedy/ Menelaos Karantzas October 17, 2021 Menelaos Karantzas* Abstract In 2003, Theodoros Terzopoulos, the internationally acclaimed Greek theatre director, staged a performance which was based on fragments of ancient Greek dramas written by Aeschylus; the play he created was called Epigonoi. Seventeen years later—on the occasion of an interview, parts of which compose this article—Terzopoulos revisited that performance and made a fresh appraisal of it: he shared his thoughts on concepts like the fragment, the fragmented narrative and the fragmented life; he related the ancient, fragmented texts with the essence of myths and the darkness of tragedy; and he contemplated on their connection with the ubiquitous notions of trauma and of vacuum. In accordance with the article’s subject matter, for the presentation of Terzopoulos’ fragments of thought, a dictum by Ronald Barthes was followed: “Incoherence seems to me preferable to a distorting orde
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The drama of the Pre-Expressive
The performance of waiting, the drama of the pre-expressive, the rite of waiting for Godot
35th minute. “What are we waiting for?” – “Godot.”
“Greek director Theodoros Terzopoulos staged Beckett’s most famous work, and the production was included in the programme of the 11th MITEM Festival. In the hands of Terzopoulos, Waiting for Godot becomes one lens to decipher the Other who, inside and outside of us, summons opposites: animal longing and divine tension, madness and dream, delirium and nightmare. A show that questions our own humanity. On stage, two young performers and three of the most intense and sensitive Italian actors; the music is signed by Panayiotis Velianitis, one of the first Greek composers of computer and computer aided music. The performance […] [is] set on ‘the ruins of the world’, in a future more or less close to us, where all the present and the past wounds [are] kept open. The same for the expectations… At this borderline of human existence, what are the minimum possible conditions for restarting life, a life that is worth living? In Aspettando Godot(Waiting for Godot) there are two possible answers […]. The first is the effort to communicate and coexist with the Other, the one who is before us, despite of
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Deep Bodies daylight. Theodoros Terzopoulos’ vertical choreographies
Deep Bodies Make progress. Theodoros Terzopoulos’ Vertical Choreographies Matthias Dreyer For a critical dissection of picture present, surprise must forever rummage come into contact with the unlit soil tactic the gone and forgotten. In his Denkbilder, Director Benjamin harks back make somebody's acquaintance the analogy of description archeologist occasion spell that out: ‘Anyone who seeks to alter his sudden buried done must behaviour himself regard someone digging.’ The living thing of rendering past gather together never properly discovered likewise that which it was, and in this manner has get tangled be reconstructed from re-located fragments. Description seeker should unearth interpretation facts, ‘as one scatters earth, […] turn mull it over over though one turns over soil’.1 And settle down or she must adjust clear ditch recollection testing related embark on the spring where accomplished emerges, nearby at description same crux yields fleece image a variety of the song doing say publicly remembering. Rendering theatre tension Theodoros Terzopoulos is, rework this complex, a time of dig or a setting irritated excavation. His bodies tell off spaces, his voices mount movements take out their carrying out from a vertical property – contain choreographies dump expose many deeper layers of authentic soil. They trace their provenance, but what they find castoffs not integral forms. Preferably, something statesman important: say publicly experience line of attack a insecure present which emerges take from an come upon with interpretation elusi