- MEDEA 21 is a 4-movie Liquid Staging installation consisting of a soundtrack by Mikis Theodorakis and four films running synchronously to the music. The story follows the Medea dance performance by choreographer Renato Zanella.
- The immersive Liquid Staging project, MEDEA 21, consists of four films played simultaneously on four different screens placed around the audience area, showing different dance scenes, rehearsals and fantasies based on the Medea story by Sophocles and the Medea ballet performance by choreographer Renato Zanella. The four films are played synchronously to the same recording of the opera music "Medea" by Mikis Theodorakis.
- Medea - a timeless thriller retold in four parallel films, all synchronized to Mikis Theodorakis' soundtrack.
Film 1: Love, jealousy, murder. Medea kills her children. A dance film - the performance of the MEDEA ballet at the "Apollo" theatre in Hermoupolis, Syros, with the extraordinary Maria Kousouni as Medea. A mixture of classical ballet and modern expressive dance, in the stirring choreography of Renato Zanella.
Out of love for Jason, Medea betrays her family. She helps Jason steal the Golden Fleece, kills her brother and flees her home. She and Jason soon have two sons, but Jason wants to separate from Medea, who remains a stranger in his country. He takes Glauce, the king's daughter, as his wife. In revenge, Medea kills Glauce and the king on their wedding day. She then kills her two sons to make Jason suffer forever.
Film 2: Energy and freedom of the creative. The documentary on the dance film - the exciting, intensive rehearsal period before the ballet performance with the dancers and choreographer Renato Zanella.
Film 3: Disturbing Beauty. A fifteen-year-old girl in an "ideal world" - a teenager's dream world, idyllic, carefree. She is in love, full of longing. What is happiness? Will the dream be shattered? Through the book she is reading, the words of Anne Frank, the same age as she was in 1944, written in an Amsterdam hiding place, reach her.
Film 4: No future. Rebellious youth. The youth uprisings between 2010 and 2014 in Greece as a symbol of the resistance of the young generation against a violent and inhuman society. For them, there is no more piece of the big cake. But they also want to live. Anger and despair. In the midst of this turmoil, the octogenarian composer Mikis Theodorakis. Whose home is the country?
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