Hero

Do we still need heroes? Who are they? What do they mean to us in our everyday life?
Patricia Apergi and the dancer Eva Georgitsopoulou investigated contemporary heroes of our society and transformed their narratives into movement.

Hero speaks for the people who turned their defeat into victory and those who became heroes without noticing. It shows the courage, effort, perseverance and strength needed to take up any fight. Powerful, courageous, energetic and with humour.

Hero refers to a society where effort and strength become the protagonists. Whose citizens have wasted all of their smiles in battle, until they realized they had nothing more left.
Or could it be that, through defeat, they won everything?

What is of most value: the fight or its outcome?
Can one emerge as a hero from a failure?
Can we dare to speak for our future? And can this future turn heroic?

In Hero, we try things multiple times. Either in the same way, with obsessive repetition, or through different approaches each time. In order to discover identity, class, relationships, history, the future.
All these, through a fight.

The symbol of everyday battle.

And in this fight, dance becomes the instrument of resistance to all of our fears and at the same time the vehicle to exchange stories and narratives.
A motive to keep fighting, the encouragement to keep dancing.
Dance becomes the weapon to make peace with failure.

And then try again.

Credits

Choreography & Concept: Patricia Apergi
Dance: Sofia Pouchtou
Sound design: Giwrgos Poulios
Dramaturgy & Lighting design: Nikos Vlasopoulos
Costume design: Vassiliki Syrma
Photos: Peter van Heesen
Creative Producer: Dörte Wolter

Duration

45 Minutes

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