Performances Lobby
20.07 | 21.00 | 45'
Kalamata Dance Megaron / Lobby
THODORIS ECONOMOU & MARIANNA KAVALLIERATOS
Radar
Radar is the meeting of two people. The meeting of two art forms: music and dance. It is the wordless language between them. A game of contrasts that can only exist together. At times, they follow the same path; at others, they drift apart.
Male – Female. Light – Darkness. Laughter – Crying. Sound – Silence. Movement – Stillness.
The piece emerges from a dialogue between two artists, each expressing themselves through their own medium—music and dance, sound and movement, silence and stillness—in a space that reshapes itself each time, depending on the environment. The only instruments: a piano and a body. Everything unfolds through a dynamic of agreement or disagreement.
Their tools are rooted in structured improvisation, with core pillars embedded in the sonic and movement score—yet open to disruption and reinvention. Each audience member is invited to share in this dialogue as a third performer. They are actively included — though not interactively — creating a collective experience of presence and observation. In Radar, we all find ourselves under the same communicational umbrella.
- Concept: Thodoris Economou & Marianna Kavallieratos
- Music Composition: Thodoris Economou
- Choreography: Marianna Kavallieratos
MARIANNA KAVALLIERATOS
Marianna Kavallieratos studied dance and choreography at The Place – London Contemporary Dance School, and continued her education at SUNY Purchase (New York) with a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation.
Since 1992, she has maintained a long-standing collaboration with director and visual artist Robert Wilson, both at the Watermill Center (New York) and in productions including: T.S. Eliot, Une Femme Douce, Persephone, The Days Before DD&D III, Wings on Rock, Prometheus, Relative Light, Alceste (Gluck), Odyssey, and Sonnets.
Her choreographic work has been presented internationally, with support from institutions such as the Onassis Cultural Centre, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the Spoleto Festival, the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, and the NEON organization. Notable works include: Ever After, Bastet, They, Stations, Recalculate, Auto Run, Moment, as well as several site-specific projects in Athens and New York.
A landmark collaboration was As One | Marina Abramović (Benaki Museum), curated by NEON, where she took part in the long-duration performance Skin.
In theatre, she has worked as a choreographer with directors including Robert Wilson, Lydia Koniordou, Stathis Livathinos, Giannis Kalavrianos, Euripides Laskaridis, and Dimitra Trypani, as well as with the fashion house Hermès.
Alongside her artistic practice, she teaches contemporary dance and choreography at the Greek National School of Dance, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the Watermill Center (New York), the Rallou Manou Dance School, the National Theatre of Greece Drama School, and other professional institutions in Greece and abroad.
Her work is deeply human-centered, exploring the individuality and expressive potential of each performer — both as a singular presence and within the collective.
THODORIS ECONOMOU
Thodoris Economou studied piano at the Athens Conservatoire with Aliki Vatikioti and completed his postgraduate studies at the Royal College of Music in London under Irina Zaritskaya.
He has composed music for more than 150 theatre productions, working with all of Greece’s major publicly funded institutions, including the National Theatre of Greece, the National Theatre of Northern Greece, the Greek National Opera, the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, the Megaron – Athens Concert Hall, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, the Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, and internationally with the Piccolo Teatro (Milan).
His collaborators include leading Greek directors such as Robert Wilson, Giannis Houvardas, Giannis Moschos, Pygmalion Dadakaridis, Stamatis Fasoulis, Giannis Bezos, Vangelis Theodoropoulos, Giannis Kalavrianos, Amalia Bennett, Io Voulgaraki, and Sotiris Tsafoulias.
In cinema, he has scored the films Sweet Memory (Katzourakis, 2004), Contact (Lykouresis, 2017), Triumph (Grozeva & Valchanov, 2023), Iris (Aristeidou, 2024), and the acclaimed TV series Eteros Ego (2023). He also collaborated with director Theo Angelopoulos on his final film project.
He has collaborated with symphony orchestras and musical ensembles in Cyprus, the USA, the United Kingdom, Japan, Egypt, South Africa, and China, as well as in improvisational solo concerts in Greece, Italy, and India.
In 2004, he wrote the music for the opening ceremony of the Athens Paralympic Games. In the summer of 2024, he composed the music for the final of the Pre-Olympic Basketball Tournament at the Peace and Friendship Stadium (SEF)
He has received the Dimitris Mitropoulos Award (Hellenic Theatre Museum, 2011), and multiple distinctions for Best Original Score from Athinorama Audience Awards (2010, 2022, 2023), as well as recognition from the Hellenic Association of Theatre and Performing Arts Critics (2023). Thodoris teaches at the drama school of the Greek Art Theatre—a landmark institution founded in 1942 by Karolos Koun.