The choreographic solo explores the transformation of grief from private experience to collective ritual. From the birth of ancient theater, the emotion was an architecture of power, created through breath and movement, and performed for the collective upliftment and redemption of the audience. The lamentation songs of the balkan musical heritage carry over this tradition of turning grief into a communal gathering. 

Bringing forth the restorative powers of the performing act through time, the performance aims to unpick the threads: in a world without pause, how do we create space to process the loss?  When language fails, what’s left of our memories? What ancestral wisdoms do we carry in our bodies? What forms of resistance are born through softness and release?

Concept, performance, text: Léllé Demertzi
Original compositions and arrangements: Vasileios Voulgaropoulos
Dramaturgy: Tzella Karali