moonlight

picture documentation

The dance performance moonlight takes its inspiration from the influence the moon has on vegetation, the movement of the waters, the seas and the human psyche.

The moon was seen from the time past as the source of dew and moisture. Pliny says

that the moon may fairly be considered as the planet of breath, because it saturates the earth and by its approach fills bodies, while by its departure it empties them. Hence it is, he goes on, that shell-fish increase with the increase of the moon and that bloodless creatures especially feel breath that time; even the blood of men grows and diminishes with the light of the moon, and leaves and herbage also feel the same influence, since the lunar energy penetrates all things.
from: Frazer :: The Golden Bough, on Osiris and the Moon

The moon is also the archetypal image of the feminine. As the moon changes from the increase to the decrease from birth to deatch in its cyclical rhythm, the performance attempts to embody the fullness and fluidity of this influence on vegetation, the movement of waters and the human psyche.

The performance also attempts with some humor to bring various popular customs and rules based on the doctrine of lunar sympathy, referred to in Frazer's book, based on primitive philosophy, according to which all things wax or wane with the moon.

choreography:

Arianna Economou

dancers - collaborators:

Arianna Economou
Lia Charaki
Athina Piki
Alexandra Waierstall

music:

J.S. Bach
Arvo Pärt
Steve Reich

costume and styling:

Anita Michaelidis

visual contribution:

Horst Weierstall

sound:

Poullis Digital Recordings

lighting:

Yiannos Markitanis

production:

ECHO ARTS