Program Main Stage

17.07 | 22:00 | 75’

Kalamata Dance Megaron / Main Stage

PATRICIA APERGI // AERITES DANCE COMPANY

ΤHE HOUSE OF TROUBLE

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About the performance

I don’t know where to start. I have to share it with you. You have come this far. We will do everything to please you. We depend on you. We need you. Use us. We can do anything. The world is on our shoulders. You need us. There are no more of us. We are already facing extinction.

The new work from the Aerites dance company aspires to converse with the concept of identity through the violence each one of us may undergo or inflict in order to define ourselves, the world, and our freedom. It is a paean to individuals and their choices, to diversity and self-determination. It is the beginning of a show that is staged to present us with everything that deviates from what we are used to, a show made in order to admire the different, that dares to shine a light on everything that is not counted as “average”. It exists to remind us of the majesty and beauty of each body, of each existence. Just like in a circus.

At a certain age, we all conjured a luminous world to define our ideal, special, and unique society, our tender and fair microcosm; where courage and boldness were applauded, provided that we were sure that all safety measures were followed; where violence was glorified as we were assured by the fact that it derives from faith, discipline, and obedience.

But what happens when we are no longer able to tame all this? When our visit to this world touches upon our darkest fears? When the dwarf we have been applauding all this time stops dancing cutely and decides to pull the trigger on us?

What happens when violence erupts from the very people who have fought against it?
Is it life or the circus? Is it truth or is it spectacle?
This is how we arrive at our glorious present time.

The House of Trouble is a party that incorporates all of these reactions. It takes on the “outbursts” of our time to reveal to us that we can still have a good time despite our lack of harmony and our disagreements. It is a love letter to the absurdity of the dipoles constantly imposed on us by society. A feast dedicated to the joy of transformation and the multidimensionality of our bodies.

 

Presented with the support of Onassis Stegi’s “Outward Turn” Program.

  • Concept & Choreography: Patricia Apergi
  • Cast (in alphabetical order): Ilias Chatzigeorgiou, Andrea Givanovitch, Fuerza Negra, Caterina Politi, Melina Sofokleous, Sevasti Zafeira, Eleanna Zoi
  • Dramaturgy: Roberto Fratini Serafide
  • Music & Sound Design: Giorgos Poulios
  • Set Design: Evangelia Therianou
  • Lighting Design: Nikos Vlasopoulos
  • Costume Design: Eirini Georgakila
  • Artistic Consultant: Adrianos Efthymiadis
  • Research Consultant: Ιria Vrettou
  • Assistant Choreographer: Emmanouela Sakellari
  • Assistant Costume Designer: Kyranna Gkioka
  • Assistant Set Designer: Genevieve Athanasopoulou
  • Custom-Made Props: Konstantinos Chaldaios
  • Lights Programmer – Tour: Tassos Nixalian
  • Technical Production Coordinator: Nikos Charalampidis
  • Creative Producers: Yolanda Markopoulou, Vicky Strataki — Polyplanity Productions
  • Executive Producers: Aerites Dance Company, Polyplanity Productions
  • International Distribution: Plan B – Creative Agency for Performing Arts Hamburg
  • Α Project by Patricia Apergi // Aerites Dance Company
  • Commissioned & Produced by: Onassis Stegi
  • Co-Produced by: Le Gymnase – CDCN Roubaix – Hauts-de-France (FR), La Rose des Vents – Scène Nationale Lille Métropole – Villeneuve d’Ascq (FR)
  • With the financial support of: The Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports
  • The House of Trouble is presented with the support of Onassis Stegi’s Outward Turn Program.

Smoke and strobe lights are used during the performance.

PATRICIA APERGI

Patricia Apergi was born in Athens. In 2006, she founded the Aerites Dance Company, for which she has choreographed the performances Τhe House of Trouble (2023), U(R)TOPIAS (2021), Hero (2020), Polittes (Citizens Defeated) (2018), Cementary (2017), TANZheimer (2014), Planites (2013), Era poVera (2012), The Manifest of the Other (2010), d.opa! (dopamines of post-Athenians) (2009), Ferry Tales (2009), Apolost (2008), and Anorexia Socialis (2007). Her works have toured extensively in Greece and beyond. She has worked as a movement director for theatre, opera, and art installations, collaborating with Greek and international artists, and has choreographed pieces for dance and ballet companies globally. Apergi co-wrote the book Theatre History – Theatre Studies (Hellenic Ministry of Education). She has been a European Dancehouse Network (EDN) Modul-dance artist, and a Maison de la Danse Lyon associate artist. From 2020 to 2022, she sat on the Board of Directors of the Athens & Epidaurus Festival. She teaches dance and theatre at the Leonteios School in Athens, where she also serves as a cultural events consultant. She has taught dance and improvisation at schools in Greece and beyond. In 2021 she founded the U(R)TOPIAS Academy of Choreography, in partnership with the 2023 Eleusis- European Capital of Culture.