🧡 TOTANS 🧡
TITANS // 2017 // Vilnius pre-show videos
Euripides and OSMOSIS around the world // New York // #instalove
Euripides in New York for performances of RELIC at the Public Theater, as part of the Onassis USA “Democracy Is Coming” Festival (10-13 April 2019)!
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Euripides and OSMOSIS around the world // Florence // #instalove
Euripides in Florence, Italy with composer and sound designer Giorgos Poulios, for a residency at the Teatro della Pergola (27 & 28 February) to develop of a new OSMOSIS work for 2019!
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Euripides and OSMOSIS around the world // Hong Kong // #instalove
Euripides in Hong Kong for performances of TITANS at the Hong Kong Arts Festival (27 & 28 February 2019)!
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Euripides featured on ARTE Tracks
ARTE featured Euripides and his work on its (French) Tracks – Culture from the Other Side of the Tracks programme – which reports on ”geek culture, current music, film and emerging artistic forms” – alongside acclaimed Irish choreographer Oona Doherty.
You can also watch it in German here, wenn Sie es vorziehen!
ELEUSIS 2021 // CULTURE 2030 discussion meeting
Euripides was invited to take part in a discussion titled CULTURE 2030 – Is the Art Capital organised by Eleusis 2021 European Capital of Culture. Attended by artists, curators and cultural professionals, managers and stakeholders, it sought to bring the inner workings of artistic creation out.
[photos by John Kouskoutis]
Tanz im August talks to Euripides about TITANS
// I find our existence very funny…
Tanz im August chats with Euripides about transformations on stage, wearing masks, and the creatures in his pieces.
TITANS is playing at HAU2 in Berlin on 23, 24 and 25 August!
// Euripides featured in ANTRO POSITIVO
// the mythology of another possible world
Euripides featured in the São Paulo “theatre and thinking” magazine ANTRO+ POSITIVO by Ruy Filho!
Read it (in Brazilian Portuguese) here.
[photos by Miltos Athanasiou, Evi Fylaktou & Elina Giounanli]
ART PRESS // featuring New Settings #7 artists
This month’s ART PRESS magazine is dedicated to the 16 artists supported by the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès as part of its New Settings #7 Programme.
It features an article by Florian Gaité on Euripides and his work.
// UPDATE //
Florian’s article is now available to read in English online on the Tanz im August website, and in German here!
TITANS will be performed in Berlin on 23, 24 and 25 August 2018 – see you there!
TITANS // New Settings #7
Euripides’ TITANS is one of 16 works for the stage selected to be supported by the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès as part of its New Settings #7 programme!
These 16 projects “embrace diverse formats and aesthetics, but are united in their off-beat, experimental approach. At the frontier of the visual and performing arts, many draw on innovative expressive forms and vocabularies to create remarkable, ground-breaking works across artistic disciplines.”
TITANS will be performed in Paris at Théâtre de la Ville – Les Abbesses from 30 November to 2 December 2017 – see you there!
TITANS // 2017 // photo by José Miguel Jiménez
tanz magazine // promising talents 2017
Euripides and OSMOSIS have been included on tanz magazine's Hoffnungsträger ("promising talents") list of thirty artists for 2017!
TITANS // last night in Montreal
Thank you Festival TransAmériques for giving us a fantastic reception on our first time in Montreal! 😊
with love Pina // Masurca Fogo walrus
“Dear dear Euripides
What a big big joy that you are here with us in Masurca Fogo.
I like to thank you from all my heart.
With love
Pina”
A precious note from Pina Bausch to Euripides, after he heaved himself across the stage inside a walrus suit as part of the New York performances of Masurca Fogo – her travelogue inspired by Portugal and Brazil – at BAM in November 2001.
Alongside it, a letter and a poem for Pina by Euripides.
// UPDATE //
Here’s what being a lone Pina walrus feels like!
Euripides and OSMOSIS around the world // Rapa Nui // #instalove
Euripides on Rapa Nui [Easter Island] in Chile, with Lemi Ponifasio and MAU MAPUCHE, attending their performance of Ceremonia de Memorias at the Teatro a Mil in Rapa Nui Festival (6 January 2017) as part of his Pina Bausch Fellowship.
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// photo by Euripides Laskaridis
Create – DDF // Dis-Ruptive Movements // panel discussion
On 26 May 2016, Euripides was invited by the Create National Development Agency for Collaborative Arts and the Dublin Dance Festival to take part in a seminar event titled “Dis-Ruptive Movements” at the Dublin Fringe LAB.
Chaired by Dr Sarah Tuck (a former director of Create), the panel also included Eckhard Thiemann – an independent international curator, producer and arts manager and Artistic Director of Shubbak, the London-wide festival of contemporary Arab culture – and Karthika Naïr – an award-winning French-Indian poet and dance producer, and principal scriptwriter of Akram Khan’s Chotto Desh.
DRAFF magazine // video portrait
THROUGH A SEMI-PERMEABLE MEMBRANE DARKLY
from the outside in // osmotic character development // transformation
In the run up to his RELIC performances at the Dublin Dance Festival, DRAFF magazine filmmaker José Miguel Jiménez visited Euripides in Athens to witness his particular osmotic approach to character development, working from the outside to the inside through costume, makeup and prosthetics.
DRAFF MAGAZINE // do it the OSMOSIS way
work from the outside in – never the other way around
01. have lots of useless objects lying around
02. play banal music for inspiration
03. make lots of notes and drawings on random pieces of paper
04. pretend these were huge inspirations
05. work with unfinished costumes
06. work from the outside in – never the other way around
07. …so work with a lot with mirrors
08. listen to documentaries on art while you prepare your space for rehearsal
09. if it's not working don't leave the rehearsal until 3.35am
10. invite close friends and people you never met for feedback – the same day
11. invite them even if you are not ready to share
12. filter this feedback
13. interrupt the rehearsal process for at least two weeks
14. work on other projects during these breaks
15. don't get any kind of subsidy
16. make money from the other projects
17. have no plan what-so-ever of how, where and when you will present the work
18. all of the above can be thrown out of the window at the first hint of success
text by // Euripides Laskaridis – photos by // José Miguel Jiménez & Miltos Athanasiou
Euripides in DRAFF: ANOTHER EXHIBITION in Dublin
DRAFF: another exhibition – on at the Dublin Dance Festival House from 3 to 28 May 2016 – investigates the process of making dance work. It includes a series of behind-the-scenes fragments from Aerowaves artists performing at this year’s Festival, including Fernando Belfiore, Aoife McAtamney and Euripides – who contributed an early iteration of the RELIC costume.
Euripides talks to DRAFF magazine // video teaser
DRAFF magazine video portrait coming soon…
[video by José Miguel Jiménez]
Dansmakers Amsterdam – EDN Atelier // panel discussion
On 13 March 2016, Euripides was invited to moderate a panel discussion “How to Enlarge the Relevance of Dance?” at this Dansmakers Amsterdam – EDN Atelier, with Anita van Dolen, Natasja van’t Westende, Mirjana Smolic and Monique Masselink.
Euripides also participated in this Atelier with a performance of RELIC, a performative workshop, and an ARTIST PORTRAIT video screening (across 11 & 12 March).