I don’t mind if you forget me
Marilia Grantza & Avgoustinos M.S. (Greece)
25.07 | 21:30 | Mikis Theodorakis theatre
Tickets: 17€ regular – 14€ student, unemployed | For all performances of the evening
Marilia Grantza is a multidisciplinary artist from Greece. She graduated from the Greek National School of Dance and studied at the Law School of Thessaloniki. She has been making her first steps in choreography, creating two short-length pieces. She has collaborated with choreographers such as Adonis Foniadakis, Patricia Apergi, Tú Hoang, Athanasia Kanellopoulou, Eva Georgitsopoulou, and Alan Lucien Øyen, while also performing at festivals like the Kalamata Dance Festival and the Athens City Festival. She currently lives in the Netherlands, where she works as a freelance performer.
A performance born from the dialogue of three bodies—two performers and a double bass— that unfolds as an exploration of their ever-shifting connection. Interplay between body and sound weaves moments of union and rupture, where the body seems drawn to and estranged from both the sound and its source, and from the instrument as a form. The moving body takes the shape of the double bass, challenging her own human nature, blurring her identity with that of the instrument.
The stimulation of the strings by the musician penetrates the body, through the forces applied and the energy transferred from the string to the instrument and through strong vibrations in the space. The body erupts—into bursts, collapses, repetitions, silences—searching for its own movement language. This research is born from its relation with the double bass, which through its living sound, crafts an acoustic landscape—intense yet fleeting.
The dancer moves between the instrument and the musician striving not to let the imprint of the sound to be forgotten, nor the memory of the movement shaped by it. As the piece unfolds, the performers reflect on how does the space of sound and scene shape the bond between these three bodies and how is the imprint, they created, remembered, transformed, and carried forward.
Concept, movement research: Marilia Grantza
Choreography: Marilia Grantza in collaboration with Avgoustinos M.S.
Music production: Avgoustinos M.S.
Performance: Marilia Grantza, Avgoustinos M.S.
25 July | 21:30 | Mikis Theodorakis theatre
Marilia Grantza & Avgoustinos M.S. – I don’t mind if you forget me