Chanson

Lila Zafeiropoulou

Greece

Choreography: Lila Zafiropoulou

Dancer: Myrto Athousaki

Music: Mario Bertoncini, Chanson pour instruments a vents (1974) (extract); Domenico Scarlatti, Piano Sonata in Si minor L.33 – performed by Mario Bertoncini

Photos: Sofia Farmakopoulou

Video Trailer: Christos Hasapis (clip from the full performance of “Chanson” in Japan performed by dancer Takako Segawa)

Production: Eldor/ Corporis Miracula Dance Ensemble

Time for the journey

time that departs

sinking its remotest horizon

in the fetal fluid of an unborn Adam

A new fear rises with vitality.

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The iridescent questions everywhere.

The sound or the precipice!

The hissing of silence in the light!

An instant of the future

watching you, like an upright girl

behind an incomprehensible sign.

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The eucharist, next! Triumphant!

Ornate with signals from afar and sensuous reflections.

A boy waving the joy of the world like a flag

shutting his eyes tight and opening his hands

painting the gazes of the surrounding whirling runners

red with words.

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An end in limbo.

An ecstatic child who watches

in the luminous room with the cries

and the percussive sounds of unbroken crystal.

 

* The piece is a solo extract from the original performance Chanson.

Lila Zafeiropoulou
Greece
Born in Athens, Zafeiropoulou studied at the State School of Dance and the National Conservatory of Greece. Thanks to a scholarship from the Greek Ministry of Culture and the S.S.D., she received her Diploma in Dance Theater at the Laban Centre in London where she studied with D. Lommel, S. Paxton, C. Mantafounis, Z. Nikoloudi, G. Metsis, and L. Konstantinou. She has danced with some of the most prominent ensembles in Greece, gaining awards and distinctions, and toured in important dance centers all over the world. In 2002 she founded the ELDOR Dance Company. A dance teacher since 1994, she was vice president of the Greek Choreographers Association and a member of the International Dance Council and the Athens Conservatoire Musical Society. She is currently the director of the Athens Conservatoire Dance School.

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