#Repost @lou_forster with @make_repost ・・・ 7-8 of July- Athens Epidaurus Festival Age of Crime, a dance piece choreographed by Lenio Kaklea, was commissioned by the Athens Festival on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the War of Greek Independence (1821). As in every national anniversary, celebrations are not merely an act of remembering; they mark an event upon which memory is organized and identity is performed. Thus, their formality guarantees a certain understanding of history, both lived and narrated. […] The piece aims, therefore, at a historical debate that could help reveal the complexities behind the invented continuity between present and past, the erasure of facts in order to build a strong and solidified national identity, the idealized representations and mediated memories which allow only a certain perception of the past. By dismantling those complexities, one could obtain a clear-obscure vision of the past and ultimately investigate further the cyclical pattern of history, the persistent imagery of Hellenicity that becomes both a principle of alliance and of great destructiveness within neo-Greek society. #LenioKaklea #MariaBreyanni #VenetsianaKalampaliki @konstantinos.karvouniaris #YiorgosKotsifakis #DimitrisMytilinaios #MaroStergianou #SaniaStribakou #YiannisStrigou #IoannaToumpakari #EricYvelin #LorenPalmer @oliviermulin #DimitrisMytilinaios #LenioKaklea #abd #ChloeSchmidt #AthensandEpidaurusFestival #abd @Goodheartproductions #SophiaLaiou #MarinosSariyiannis Photos: @maria.toultsa (à Athens Festival Peiraios 260) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQ-kaBBroWS/?utm_medium=tumblr