Celebration
2019
Athens & Epidaurus Festival
Athens, Greece
In June 2019, Paras was invited by the Athens & Epidaurus Festival, to create a large-scale site-specific work at the Dimotiko (Municipal) Theatre of Piraeus (built in 1895), as part of the ‘Humanities Project’. The piece Celebration was presented on June 25th, 2019, and performed by local professional and community dancers, and Vancouver based dancer Renée Sigouin. The piece began on the steps of the theatre, and then promenaded through the building, finishing on the world famous main stage.
Collaborators
Choreography, Concept & Direction:
Paras Terezakis
Interpreters:
Vilma Andrioti, Gerasimos Destounis, Lella Chatzieleftheriou, Andreas Kolisoglou, Athina Moustaka, Iliana Panayiotouni, Giorgos Papadopoulos, Dannai Papoutsi, Giorgos Paterakis, Maria Rentifi, Renée Sigouin
Clip of site specific work by Paras Terezakis ‘Celebration’ in Athens, Greece, June 2019.
We would like to express our deepest and sincere appreciation to our funders, partners, volunteers and supporters who made this project possible.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered and are creating on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples–Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.