Dancer
Theodoros Terzopoulos
29/05/2013
, 
22:00
30/05/2013
, 23:00
by Erich Arendt
dancer Tasos Dimas
narrator Theodoros Terzopoulos
translation Torsten Israel
direction Theodoros Terzopoulos
lights Theodoros Terzopoulos
Attis Theatre
Running time 40'
National premičre
Played in Greek with Italian subtitles
Reservation required
Based on the eponymous poem by Arendt, Dancer puts on stage Tasos Dimas, one of the founding members of the company Attis, and the same Theodoros Terzopoulos as narrator. The greek director compares here himself with one of the most important figures of the post-war literature, the German poet, essayist and translator Erich Arendt, and with one of his most important works.
Dancer achieves an artistic transgression creating a new genre between poetry and theater. Dancer (1973), inspired by the Minoan fresco, depicting the bullfighting, is perhaps the most renowned among the, so called, greek poems written by Arendt. The main theme of Dancer is the conflict between two powers that concludes to total destruction. Those two powers, although seeming to be extremely opponent, they also complete one another. They could also be interpreted as the logic, in one hand, and the instinct, in the other. Thus, we could say that in Dancer we have the concentration of the deep core of ancient tragedy.
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Theodoros Terzopoulos
Theodoros Terzopoulos was born in the village of Makrygialos. He attended K. Michailidis’ Drama School (1965-1967) in Athens and he studied at the Berliner Ensemble as Hospitant and assistant (1972-1976).
He has been Director of the Drama School of the State Theatre of Northern Greece (1981-1983) and artistic director of the International Meeting of Ancient Drama in Delphi (1985-1988).
He created ATTIS theatre group in 1985.
Since 1990 he has been a founding member of the International Institute of Mediterranean Theatre comprising 22 Mediterranean countries, while since 1991 he has been President of the International Institute of Mediterranean Theatre in Greece.
Since 1993 he has been the Chairman of the International Committee of Theatre Olympics. He was the artistic director of the 1st Theatre Olympics (Delphi, 1995), titled Crossing Millennia.He was the Chairman of the 2nd Theatre Olympics (Shizuoka, Japan, 1999) titled Creating Hope, of the 3rd Theatre Olympics (Moscow, 2001) titled Theater for the people, as also of the 4th Theatre Olympics (Istanbul, 2006) titled Beyond the Borders and of the 5th Theatre Olympics (Seoul, 2010) titled Sarang (Love and Humanity).
In 2005 he founds the International Meeting of Ancient Drama in Municipality of Sykion. The first edition was titled Skotos emon faos (2005), the second Descent (2006) and the third Revenge (2011)
He has directed tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, contemporary plays by the most prominent European writers, such as Brecht, Lorca, Müller, Beckett and by contemporary Greek writers. He has directed in many international theatres, he has participated in numerous international festivals and he has collaborated with important actors from all over the world.
Terzopoulos and ATTIS Theatre have been on numerous tours in Greece and abroad. Within 27 years, ATTIS theatre produced 1900 performances all over the world.
The work method of T. Terzopoulos is taught at Drama Schools and at Departments of Classical Studies of 30 International Universities.
Theodoros Terzopoulos has been awarded with many Theatre Prizes in Greece and abroad and there are many books published and translated in countries as Germany, England, Greece, Turkey, Russia, China, Poland and others, about his work method and his theatre approach.
