HERE NOT HERE // ELENIT // 2020

// what is your problem?

ELENIT premiered at Onassis Stegi in November 2019. Rehearsed on the same stage in Athens one year later, the work was ready to tour once more: programmed by Théâtre de la Ville – Paris, with Fondation d’entreprise Hermès support, to appear at Théâtre de la Cité internationale. With days to go, a second lockdown saw these Paris performances postponed.

This was our problem. Filming and sharing the documentary short HERE NOT HERE was a solution.

// suspended in honey

ELENIT // HERE NOT HERE // 2020
// video still

ELENIT opened in ATHENS as COVID was coming.

Soon after, its world TOUR slowed to a STOP.

This is us, on STAGE and off, preparing for PARIS.

Then, another LOCKDOWN.

We are still HERE, suspended in honey, missing you (NOT HERE).

// where & when

// 2021
GREECE // ATHENS // Onassis Stegi // 29 January 2021 // world online première
PERU // LIMA // Temporada Alta // 27 February 2021 // online
ITALY // FLORENCE // Teatro della Pergola // 27 March 2021 // online
IRELAND // DUBLIN // DDD – Dublin Dance Festival // 6 May - 1 June 2021 // online
PORTUGAL // PORTO // Teatro Municipal do Porto // 9 & 10 June 2021 // online
FRANCE // LYON // Maison de la Danse – Biennale de la danse // 16 June 2021 // online
FANCE // PARIS // Théâtre de la Ville – Les Abbesses // 1-3 July 2021 // online

// 2022
LITHUANIA // KAUNAS // ConTempo Festival – Kaunas Artists' House // 12 August 2022 // video screening

// 2023
SLOVENIA // MARIBOR // 58th Maribor Theatre Festival // 17 June 2023 // video screening

// on ELENIT, heads & hearts (excerpt)

// the ideal for me is: no one single meaning

// audiences can create their own stories as they watch // free from right or wrong

// and simply surrender to the sensations // without the need to understand

// just wondering what happened HERE… [hand on heart]

// NOT HERE… [hand on head]

— Euripides Laskaridis

// project info

HERE NOT HERE // ELENIT // 2020
// documentary short
// 20 minutes

directed by // Euripides Laskaridis

produced by // Onassis Stegi, Théâtre de la Ville – Paris & OSMOSIS

costume design // Angelos Mentis
original music & sound design // Giorgos Poulios
set design // Loukas Bakas
lighting design // Eliza Alexandropoulou
dramaturgy consultant // Alexandros Mistriotis

creative consultant // Eva Stefani
filmed by // Pavlos Kosmidis, Emilia Milou & Eva Stefani
editor & sound designer // Panagiotis Papafragkos
artistic associate & texts // Kyriacos Karseras
title design // Vasilis Marmatakis
assistant editor // Fani Bitou
line producers // Simona Fremder – EdM Productions & Nikos Mavrakis – TooFarEast

with the performers // Nikos Dragonas, Konstantinos Georgopoulos, Amalia Kosma, Chara Kotsali, Manos Kotsaris, Euripides Laskaridis, Thanos Lekkas, Dimitris Matsoukas, Efthimios Moschopoulos, Giorgos Poulios & Fay Xhuma

also appearing // Kostas Alexiou, Areti Antonatou, Giorgos Antonopoulos, Anthias Balis, Thanassis Dakos, Dinos Nikolaou, Kostis Pavlopoulos, Ioanna Plessa, Yorgos Tsitsingos & Olga Vlassi

thanks to // Anthias Balis, Filanthi Bougatsou, Elisabetta di Mambro, Giannis Dovas and the Onassis Stegi crew, Quentin Guisgand, Vicky Kaminari, Giorgos Kravaritis, Vicky Marangopoulou, Konstantinos Margas, Angeliki Margeti, Kostas Michopoulos, Vaggelis Mountrichas, Afroditi Panagiotakou, Eva Papadopoulou, Dimitris Papaioannou, Tina Papanikolaou, Austin Rial Eshelman, Dina Tsichli, Konstantinos Tzathas, Michalis Valasoglou, Jeph Vanger & Claire Verlet

ELENIT
a project by // Euripides Laskaridis & the OSMOSIS performing arts company
produced by // Onassis Stegi
supported by // the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès within the framework of the New Settings 2020 programme
co-produced by // Théâtre de la Ville – Paris, Teatro della Pergola, Pôle européen de création – Ministère de la Culture / Biennale de la danse de Lyon 2020, Teatro Municipal do Porto, Festival TransAmériques, Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Teatre Lliure, Malraux – Scène nationale Chambéry Savoie, Théâtre de Liège, Julidans & Bonlieu Scène Nationale Annecy
in collaboration with // ICI—Centre chorégraphique national Montpellier – Occitanie
in association with // EdM Productions – Rial & Eshelman
funded by // the Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports
the ELENIT tour // receives the generous support of Onassis Culture / Stegi’s “Outward Turn” Cultural Export Program