ELENIT
Event
Euripides Laskaridis expands his scenic universe with a new performance made for many bodies. A space where the things we know we knew are now behind. ELENIT is a tragedy comedy with characters who are touchingly real and meticulously realised, yet shamelessly imaginary. Characters that exist in a machine interested only in the urgency of the moment. Euripides Laskaridis uses notions of ridicule and transformation to explore mankind's perseverance in the face of the unknown. His works are marked by a sense of contained chaos: deep and detailed dives that tap into who we are while staying true to the specifics of a very personal look. Unconventional and non-linear, they play with the possibilities of what surrounds us – breaking, distorting, modernizing, and fiddling with ordinary materials and the detritus of everyday life to create the unexpected. The body is the medium through which Euripides’ spaces come to life. These open new territories that abruptly alternate between the hilarious and the distressing, the grotesque and the poignant, the frightening and the absurd. ELENIT is an ensemble performance for ten creatures and a wind turbine that renounces reason to forge a space without past or future.
