25.07 | 20:30 [57′]

KALAMATA DANCE MEGARON – ALTERNATIVE STAGE

Description

Mountains is a physical meditation on time, memory and existence, where the body becomes both performer and site of excavation. Without spoken words, movement unfolds as a poetic language through which memory is remembered, erased, and reimagined.

The performance is a journey of embodiment in which the body functions as a living archive—carrying, erasing, and reconstructing traces of experience. Like landscapes shaped by time, bodies remain in constant transformation, weathered by experience yet always forming something new. Each movement leaves an imprint, revealing the fragile tension between permanence and impermanence, between what remains and what inevitably fades.

In Mountains, time is no longer linear. Past, present, and future coexist within the body, intersecting and transforming one another. Movement oscillates between remembering and forgetting, allowing the performer to inhabit shifting states where memory becomes both material and process.

Rather than a solitary journey, the work unfolds as a shared experience between performer and audience. Mountains becomes a ritual of presence—an act of witnessing in which the body carries the echoes of what has been while opening space for what may still emerge.

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Credits

Conceived & Visualized by: Garage21

Direction & Choreography: Mary Rantou

Performance: Evangelia Rantou

Lighting Design: Antonis Chondrogiannis

Sound Composition & Design: Stelios Tsiloglou

Dramaturgy: Eleni Moleski

Costume Curation: Dionysis Dimoulitsas

Set Design: Garage21

Scenographic Model Making: Nikos Kokkalis

Photography & Cinematography: Giannis Nodaras

Creative Production: Garage21

Premiered at Biennale Teatro – La Biennale di Venezia (2025).

With the support of: La Biennale di Venezia and NEON Organization for Culture and Development.

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