A ROCK IS BETTER THAN A THRONE

“Milos International Dance & Theater Center” AMKE presents a show that runs through time, starting with the “Iketides” of Aeschylus and reaching the femicides of our days. Iconic but also everyday female figures cross the stage through the memory of the Narrator (Filio Louvari) who manages the dramatic material through speech and contemporary dance. The heroines speak with directness, emotion and humor about their own history, speaking, ultimately, about the history of Greece and the Woman in it. A show that promotes the dialogue about the position of women today and aspires to deconstruct her stereotypical gender role. 

This play is performed in Greek

STAGE COMPOSITION FOR VOICE, BODY AND FLAG

A woman does housework. She spreads the laundry, sweeps, cooks. It may be from Argos, where the Danaids, chased by their cousins, arrived. She may once have been told a joke that offended her and never responded. She might have heard that she’s a badass because she can’t peel a potato or that she shouldn’t go to the beach with that body. But she knows. She knows within herself and realizes that she does not want to be what she is forced to be. Neither slave nor mistress.

SUMMARY

What does a throne represent? Why did the Danaids leave Egypt? What happened on the islet of Ro from 1927 to 1961? Who does the laundry? Who goes out to the mountain? How many ways are potatoes cooked? Who makes these jokes? Memory and oblivion, fragments of texts, women’s stories and historical documents compose the “Monument of Femininities” of yesterday that are ready to climb on its rocks here and now.

PREVIOUS PERFORMANCES
– 2022: 29th Festival of the Municipality of Milos and project “Pleureuses et Floraisons” / Newtopia 10.5 of the Omnivion group (short version, in French)

– 2023: Sifnos “Small Festival on the Pier”, Milos Festival “From the Sea”, Kimolos Municipal Cultural Events

– 2024: Nicosia Dance Roof, “Encounters” Festival of the “Incorporeal Forces” Group

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