Levantes Dance Theatre

Directed by Eleni Edipidi, Bethanie Harrison

Multimedia artist: Gopan Iyadurai

Costume designer: Vassilia Rozana

Costume maker: Voula Kritikou

Stage manager: Kleoniki Edipidi

Featuring: Eleni Edipidi, Bethanie Harrison, Martin Collins plus guest performers

How, why, where, when and who we find ourselves synchronizing with can be a mystery; our compulsion to duet our way through life, a life-long fascination.

Fluid and vibrant, 'Two Peas without a Pod' explores the essence of partnership and the dynamics of co–dependency and competitiveness. Audiences are taken on an indulgent trip to discover the make-up and contradictions of human connections, observing the draw of coupling, how society’s structures stem from this principle and how varying and fascinating these partnerships can be. The absurd and the familiar are married together with set and flamboyant costume in this fantastical cocoon of colourful activity.

Award-winning Levantes Dance Theatre consists of innovative practitioners Bethanie Harrison and Eleni Edipidi who combine contemporary dance theatre practices with visual and live art. Familiar mechanics of pedestrian routine are regularly woven into choreography to develop penetrable, peculiar and often humorous landscapes.

‘They use dance as a simple yet enlightening method of communication.’ – Metro

‘We need more artists like this.’ – Silke Arnold, Creative Projects Manager East London Dance

Emmanouil Koutsourelis

Text: Samuel Beckett – Thanos Stathopoulos

Concept/Direction: Emmanouil Koutsourelis

Choreography: Apostolia Papadamaki

Animation Graphics: Alexandros Psychoulis

Music: Konstantinos Vita

Sound designer/Technical engineer: Voltnoi Brege

Featuring: George Kakanakis

Whatever breathes in this show is darkness.

Where does a journey back to the first love of our life take us? What shadows inhabit our dreams? Where do we draw the line between reality and illusion, human and mechanical, performance and performer?

Combining two different texts – Samuel Beckett’s story First Love and Thanos Stathopoulos’ Playback – the play follows its protagonist as he reflects on his first love and talks about the dimension of time, the nature of things, and the isolation of existence even in an erotic encounter. Produced in a two-dimensional space where light and shadow interplay, speech converses with animation graphics, and on-stage characters interact with on-screen projected images, 'First Love Playback' is a multi-media production in which action, motion, music, and lighting are all filtered through the use of technology and modern audio-visual media.

Cutting-edge Greek theatre director, choreographer and performer Emmanouil Koutsourelis has created an engaging and ingenious piece of visual theatre which offers a total experience of performance and demands the spectator’s full presence.

‘An inimitable venture that dissolves and subverts all theatre conventions… A theatre experience for all the senses.’ – TimeOut, Athens

‘Emmanouil Koutsourelis’s use of multimedia opens up new possibilities for the theatre.’ – Investor’s World