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    PHOTO: PANOS KOKKINIAS
  • A traveller in a hotel room unpacks her suitcase (the first of many to appear in my work), and from the wardrobe emerge three men: a father figure, a lover, and the figure of an ideal male. This wardrobe, placed up stage centre, acts as an opening onto the fantasies and memories hidden in the mind. ROOM II also introduced a theme that was to appear in almost all my subsequent productions: that of someone waiting and someone coming.
    This piece ends with my favourite flavour of concluding image. An image that, in and of itself, attempts to symbolically and poetically encapsulate the concept of an entire piece: here, a woman imprisoned within the folded, bare frame of a camp-bed set in front of an illuminated male figure. This emblematic summary, the visual seal of the work, conveys the notion of fate: a story being endlessly repeated. I first attempted this with ROOM II, and I have strived to produce such images ever since.

1990 / ROOM II / A PIECE FOR A WOMAN AND THREE MEN / EDAFOS DANCE THEATRE
 

30 minutes
Première: 19 December 1988, at the 4th Biennial of Young Artists from Europe (Bologna - Italy)
Direction - Choreography - Set and Costume Design: Dimitris Papaioannou
Lighting Design: Emmanouel Koutsourelis
Performers: Nikos Dragonas, Vaggelis Papadakis, Dimitris Papaioannou, Angeliki Stellatou, Stavros Zalmas