DRIPLES & TRIPLETS
ONASSIS CULTURAL CENTER-ATHENS | November 6, 2017 - May 22, 2018
CONTRIBUTORS
Choreography & Dramaturgy:
Menti Mega
Music (composed in collaboration with the performers): Chrysanthos Christodoulou
Assistant to the choreographer:
Antonis Strouzas
Costume designer & prop oversight: Margarita Hatziioannou
Executive Production & Coordination:
Delta Pi
Produced by: Onassis Cultural Centre-Athens
INFO
When:
MON's & TUE's
Where:
Outside the OCC / School basketball courts
Performance duration:
1h
DESCRIPTION
You've got your ticket in your hand. The venue's ready. It's full, everyone's in place. Including the stars, who are ready to give their all! You're clapping. So what's about to happen? What are you about to see? A match or a performance?
The OCC heads out to... sports stadiums! Specifically, to the basketball courts and covered sports halls of schools and municipalities in Athens and the Greek provinces. The performance by the choreographer Menti Mega initiates schoolchildren into art's big questions in an original and ground-breaking way: by bringing them face to face with the exciting world of sport. Driples & Triplets appropriates the format of popular survival reality shows and talent contests to subvert both to devastating and hilarious effect.
Forget about winners and losers, about sports fanatics and the commercialization of physical skill, the stereotypes of beauty and bodily health. They do things differently in the arts. Art's not about points; it's about other things. Or, as the graffiti artist wrote: "poetry's an extreme sport".
Performed by:
Nanti Gogoulou, Alexandros Laskaratos, Alin Batanian, Ariadni Papapanagiotou Christina Reinhardt, Periklis Skordilis, Antonis Strouzas, Stelios Chatzikaleas, Vivi Christodoulopoulou
We would like to thank the Mayor of Moschato-Tavros municipality, Mr. Andreas Eythimiou, the vice mayor Mr. George Fellas, and the Municipal Gym of Moschato for their kind support.