Crossroad
community dance

With the support of the British Council in Athens. In collaboration with the Isadora Duncan Dance Research Centre as part of the Vyronas Summer Festival.

Crossroad, a theatre dance work, performed by a group of 40 non-professional performers living in the municipality of Vyronas. The remarkable power of this group, which was made up of people aged from two to over seventy, thrilled the audience.

Crossroad has been created by award-winning UK-based choreographer Luca Silvestrini and aims to bring together the community in order to celebrate its richness and diversity through dance and physical expression. Luca has made numerous visits to nursery schools, schools and centres for the elderly in the Municipality of Vyronas to recruit and work with the performers.

Crossroad explores the relationship between tradition and modernity through an entertaining yet touching portrait of how we feel and think at different stages of our lives, and is inspired by the everyday while at the same time searching for the extraordinary.

Concept and coreography: Luca Silvestrini in collaboration with the dancers
Martha Kloukina, Olia Lidaki, Rena Papandoniou, Gogo Petrali

Direction: Luca Silvestrini
perrformers: a group of 40 non-professional performers
living in the municipality of Vyronas (2-80 years old)
Spatial Design: Manolis Iliakis
Lighting Design: Kostas Agelou

About Luca Silvestrini
Award-winning Italian-born performer and choreographer Luca Silvestrini moved to the UK in 1994 to train at Laban, Europe’s leading centre for contemporary dance training. Today Luca is still living in the UK and is currently Artistic Director and Choreographer of Protein Dance. As a choreographer, Luca is inspired by people and situations around him.

Saturday 22 September 2007, 9 p.m.
Vrachon Theater– Melina Merkouri, Vyronas, Athens