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Celebrate the Artist: Christina Kyriazidi
Featuring Christina Kyriazidi
Celebrate the Artist is one of Theaterlab’s oldest and most valued programs, in which we celebrate international artists and introduce them to New York audiences by presenting workshops, performances, and, most importantly, a Theaterlab-style wine and snacks reception. The program aims to connect visiting international artists in transit with the New York artistic community to promote cultural exchange.
Christina Kyriazidi is a Greek theatre and radio maker, musician, and writer based between Berlin, and Athens. She studied acting and playwriting in Greece and the UK (University of Exeter), and she has worked as a theatre actress, director, and dramaturge in several European and South American countries. She has collaborated with international theatre groups such as Odin Teatret, and she has created 17 solo performances that have toured festivals, galleries and theatres in Greece, France, Italy, Germany, Argentina, Brazil and NYC (Festival d’Avignon OFF, Magdalena Festival etc). Her theatre plays have been awarded and performed in Greece, Germany, Brazil, and Spain and her poetry has been published in Greece. Finally, she is also the founder of various international art projects, including the story collection platform STORY FOR FOOD in Berlin, and the International Storytelling & Performing Arts Festival “We Love Stories” in Chania, Crete.
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Celebrate the Artist Reception
September 25, 2024, from 6pm to 8pmÂ
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[CRACKS]
Written, Directed, & Performed by Christina Kyriazidi
Music by Smári Gudmundsson
Costume Design by Eleni Nomidi
Stage Objects by Stamatis Leontios
Lighting Design by Nefeli Koumiotaki
Production by OUR STORIES
[CRACKS] is a dance-theatre stage composition (solo performance), the third collaboration between the Greek poet and performer Christina Kyriazidi and the Icelandic composer Smári Gudmundson. It revolves around a female figure in a frantic mental, physical, and verbal rampage. An anonymous woman from whose body memories of other women emerge: a woman refugee in a foreign land, Antigone walking to her earthen tomb, Medea contemplating her unspeakable crime, Phaedra and the desperate lover of Jean Cocteau’s “Human Voice”. The invisible thread that connects these women is WOMAN’s relation with love, power, and death. The heroine clashes with the memories she carries, memories that belong to her space-time, and others that emerge despite herself from the landscapes of the female collective unconscious. She is constantly changing voices and languages, uttering sounds, singing, and narrating. The dramaturgy progresses with leaps of associations, as words come out of her in a non-linear way, and only fragments of different stories survive. Her struggle is internal and transcends her biography to become universal.
[CRACKS] is a tragic dizzying dance, a plunge into the heroine’s subconscious, oscillating between sanity and madness, between memory and oblivion, between life and death. A woman, without a specific name, who carries all the voices and all the female archetypes. From the silence of oblivion to the cry of assertion, primordial female forms within the body of a random woman, countless cracks revealing axles of different conflicts. A performance about the light and darkness of the female soul.
The stage composition [CRACKS] combines theatre, dance, and music. It is based on the poetry of Christina Kyriazidi, with additional references to Jean Cocteau’s “Human Voice”, and the characters of Antigone, Phaedra, and Medea from different authors (Sophocles, Euripides, Jean Anouilh, G. Ritsos, Heiner MĂĽller). It includes original music by Smári Gudmundson. The performance is mainly in Greek, including Spanish, French, and Italian with English over titles
Performance Date/Time
September 29, 2024 @5pm
Performance in The Gallery
$11 (including fees)
COVID-19 policy: In guidance with the city and state COVID-19 policies, we will no longer be requiring masks, but strongly recommend them.