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FRAGMENTS OF TIME
A musical exchange with pieces for voice and piano
26'
Description
These fragments I have shored against my ruins.T. S. Eliot
Inside an old, abandoned PPC power station in Faliro, Athens –a place of remembrance, history, and silence lying outside time– two artists are reviving memories and emotions. Music and song enter into discourse to build bridges between devastation and the hope that follows in its wake.
Mezzo-soprano Margarita Syngeniotou and pianist Titos Gouvelis perform pieces by François Couperin, Yannis Constantinidis, Paul Dessau, Ottorino Respighi, James Joyce, Francis Poulenc, and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Creative team – Cast
Μezzo-soprano Margarita SyngeniotouPiano Titos Gouvelis
Director Marilena Katranidou
Clothes Sophia Arvaniti
Photography director Yorgos Frentzos
Director's note
What lives on after a catastrophe? How does life change when our certainties are struck down? When reality, as we once knew it, crumbles away? When our constants cease to exist? War. Revolution. Migration. Love. Pandemic life.
The war in Ukraine and our recent pandemic experiences have led us into contemplation, encouraging us to look back upon other tragic yet crucial episodes in the history of humankind. History, of course, has a tendency to repeat itself. The various facets of memory are spied through moments of continuity and discontinuity. Each time external forces upend the daily lives of individuals and societies, nations and states, we are forced to adapt.
In moments when the world –both around us and inside us– is brought crashing down, a reckoning is inevitable. As is a great big: “Yes” – an affirmation of life. Because amid the ruins –both literal and metaphorical– we always find the courage to be reborn, to define ourselves anew, to see the world from another perspective.
In keeping ourselves from harm, we evolve.
