Open call for participation to walking performance the Tortoise and the Spider.
World premiere: Sikelianos Amphitheatre - Delphi, 20th of July, 2017.
Rehearsals and workshop : 18 to 20 July,2017.
For dancers, performers, movement artists, butoh artists, slow movement practitioners (as yoga, qi gong, tai chi,...) and walking artists, all levels of experience welcome.
Free accomodation is provided for the performers.
the Tortoise and the Spider
is the metamorphose an ancient Greek lyre into a giant illuminated harp of people which sounds through movement in the landscape at night. A composed soundscape will enhance the work.
It is a slow movement performance, based on collaboration, making a giant illuminated spider harp which can be played and moved around by performers / movement practitioners, connected with strings. A new sound composition will be played with attached portable speakers, and the work will be performed at night.
The creation of a "human harp", eight movement artists connected with each other, playing the strings that connect them in their movement trajectory, resonating with the ground and the landscape. The performance will depart in Delphi (Greece) and afterwards symbolically and physically travel through Europe, from South to North.
Global promotion and nomadic project: Live web stream, video and web publication will share your contributions globally at the moment and after the event, worldwide promoted via Word Listening Da, the World Listening Forum and the online platform Hearing Places. The performance will be documented in a video, that will travel Europe and Australia. Performers will by fully credited in the video of this world premiere in Delphi.
We offer: free accomodation in Amfissa, near Delphi up to 4 nights in function of the workshop, rehearsals and performance. We can not provide in travel costs or living costs. .
The workshops and rehearsals will be accompanied by Ros Bandt (Australia, sound artist), Jon Drummond (Australia, composer), Katerina Drakopoulou (Greece, performer and butoh dancer), Stefaan van Biesen ((Belgium, artist and movement practitioner) and Geert Vermeire (Belgium, performance artist). http://www.rosbandt.com/ https://22stops.com/ http://www.stefaanvanbiesen.com/
Open call available on following link (pdf): https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-zZ-5_grCQ_cWlMNTVBSmtKT0E
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