About the show

The huge figure of a bull, archetype of Mediterranean culture, is one of the powerful images chosen by the Greek director, Dimitris Papaioannou, for Transverse Orientation. A play which, with Vivaldi's music, projects through dance a series of reflections about the history of humanity. Transverse Orientation, the title of this play, is the path followed by insects such as moths, driven by an internal mechanism and attracted to artificial light that captures them while are spinning in circles. This deviation of trajectory is applied by Papaioannou to humanity, attracted by the idea of ​​divinity and the successive changes of civilization driven by a balance between masculine and feminine energy. The consecutive and beautiful scenes of Transversal Orientation invite us, according to Papaioannou's idea, to examine our links to our ancestors.

About the Company

Born in Athens in 1964, Dimitris Papaioannou won recognition as a painter and comic book artist, before his career would focus on the stage arts as director, choreographer, actor, prop and costume designer, make-up and lighting artist. He was a student of the iconic Greek painter Yannis Tsarouchis and a student at the Athens School of Fine Arts. He formed Edafos Dance Theatre in 1986 as a starting vehicle for his original plays, a hybrid of physical theatre, experimental dance and performance art. In 2004, Papaioannou earned fame as the creator of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2004 Athens Olympics. Considered today as the genius of the Greek scene, his productions range from massive shows with thousands of artists to intimate pieces that have been staged all over the world. In all of them, the aesthetic search is a constant.