- digital play, hybrid performance
ODC Ensemble (GR)
Director: Elli Papakonstantinou
Duration: 60’
Language: English, Greek, Swedish with English subtitles
Cast: Nalyssa Green (vocals/keyboards), Serafita Grigoriadou, Gemma Hansson Carbone, Valia Papachristou, Katerina Papachristou (vocals/keyboards/bass), Sophia Manoli
Concept & Art Direction: Elli Papakonstantinou
Playwright: Christina Ouzounidis
Greek Translation: Margarita Mellberg
English Translation: Elli Papakonstantinou, Gemma Hansson Carbone & Eirini Dermitzak
Music Composition: Nalyssa Green & Katerina Papachristou
Scenography: Myrto Lambrou
Visual Art Advisor: Mary Zygouri
Movement Direction: Valia Papachristou
A’ Technical Assistant: Charikleia Petraki
B’ Technical Assistant: Korina Kotsiri
Trailer: Dimitra Mitsaki, Eirini Dermitzaki
Assistant to the Director: Ero Lefa
Photography: FLP Athens, Sophia Manoli
We, women of different ages and artistic backgrounds, have joined voices to traverse historicity of gender, reconfiguring domesticity and digital space. In our domestic confinement, we explore the vastness of the public agoras; framed in digital boxes, we remain transparent for the whole world to peep on us, yet, safe in the refuge of our innermost private space (unlike other women – victims of domestic violence).
This is who we are: “The Absent Girls”, in memory of all the women before us. Just like our mothers and “sisters”, we use seclusion in our favor to embroider the ancient traces of Antigone as part of our own lineage. Just like women before us, we make art in seclusion. Only this time we go public!”
“Traces of Antigone”, an overpainting of Antigone’s ancient myth, came as an immediate response to the coronavirus global lock downs and the ongoing dialogue on what presence (and absence) is all about. For the first time in recent history, seclusion is no longer a feminine condition. ODC Ensemble explore in a circle of women a completely new performative language that we‘ve come to call: “theatre of seclusion”.
The Greek director, known for her multidisciplinary performances with various art forms, after many world festivals and awards, uses the coronavirus condition for a new creation. And again, many festivals and awards: Citta delle 100 castle (Italy), Romaeuropa festival (Italy), Electric dreams online festival (UK and Australia), Feather dusting / Future lusting (UK)…