A MAN & HIS DOUBLE

for a dancer and a musician

From April 1st and for 4 unique performances returns to PLYFA, the performance “A Man and His Double”, an original composition for a dancer (Alexandros Vardaxoglou) and a musician (Yiannis Angelakis)

It is an exercise in man’s irrational, persistent effort to resist the inevitable fall and brutality of the forces of power and oppression upon him.

A body falls continuously. Through repetition, obsession and violence, the stage action is pushed to the extreme limit of its expression, in order to release the lyricism and beauty of the body fighting with forces greater than itself.

A microphone is the only object standing out in front of an empty circular arena. It is the starting point, of the body’s last effort to stand, but also a promise that there is a way out, redemption.

The dancer and the musician share the roles of the perpetrator and the victim, the authority and the governed, the conformer and the conformed.

There is no way out for either of them. The body will rise and fall again. The sounds will stop and start again. One again that constantly reminds us of the existential position of the absurd, as described by Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus.