OFFSPRING

Margarita Trikka

GREECE

SUNDAY 3.12

19:00

Roes Theatre

DURATION: 35′

AGES: 13+

Is adolescence a predictable and predetermined rebellion, or is it an unpredictable rite of passage?

Prolet OCD dance company presents “OFFSPRING,” a dance piece for teenage audiences, inspired by two iconic works, Frank Wedekind’s “Spring Awakening” and Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring”.

Five teenagers search their kinetic and physical vocabulary, while confronted on stage with a female conductor who functions as an archetypal expression of a system of education and upbringing. As the conductor insists on leading, the group of teenagers collides, discovers, tests, rejects, ultimately creating its own identity, its own Ritual.

Exploring the rites of passage and coming-of-age customs of many cultures, the bounce movement being one of their structural elements (as well as of all folk dances, from the 16th century saltarello to the 20th techno and punk), the kinetic code of the performance is formed.

By creating moving images with references to the structure of digital GIFs, the project attempts to illuminate the complex and hidden qualities of teenage bodies, unraveling their fragile world.

In this way, teenage audiences (as well as older ones) are invited to recognize and embrace their life experience, through the language of contemporary dance.

CHOREOGRAPHY: MARGARITA TRIKKA
ASSISTANT CHOREOGRAPHER: ISIDORA FRASER
DRAMATURGY: DIMITRA MITROPOULOU
ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE: ANDREAS LEVISIANOS
SET & COSTUMES: ANNA SAPKA
LIGHTING DESIGN: NIKOS VLASOPOULOS
PHOTOS / GRAPHIC DESIGN: MAVRA GIDIA
VIDEO / TRAILER: MANOS ARVANITAKIS
PERFORMERS: ELENI ADAMOPOULOU, ELEANNA ZOI, LOUKIA KONIDARI, CHARA KOTSALI, MICHAEL LOGOTHETIS ALAFRAGKIS, PANTELIS CHARATSIDIS
PRODUCTION: CHRISTOS PAPAMICHAEL & PROLET OCD

* THE WORK FEATURES THE OVERTURE FROM IGOR STRAVINSKY’S RITE OF SPRING, PERFORMED BY THE LONDON PHILARMONIC ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY LEONARD BERBSTEIN

Margarita Trikka

Margarita Trikka was born in Greece in 1984. She graduated from the Professional Dance School “Rallou Manou” and the Theatre Studies department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

As movement consultant at theatre, she collaborated with many festivals, directors and companies: National Opera (Alternative Stage), National Theater, Onassis Cultural Center, Megaron Athens, Arc For Dance Festival, Rafi Music Theater Company, D. Maramis, V. Koukalani, E. Fanarioti, K. Papakonstantinou, S. Karagianni, Halkida’s Theater etc.

In 2017, she founded Prolet OCD dance co. and choreographed 3 dance works that toured in several festivals in Greece and Europe. The company has been financially supported by the Greek Ministry of Culture and invited for Residency to Lo Studio, Switzerland.

As a performer, she has collaborated with festivals and companies in Greece and Europe: La Fundicion Bilbao, Masdanza International Contemporary Dance Festival, Athens Video Dance Festival, MIR Festival, Dimitria, Bread and Puppet Theater, Chto Delat, Synthesis 748 / Spyros Kouvaras, Aerites Dance Company, Stella Spirou Cie, Artemis Lampiri, Apostolia Papadamaki, Yelp Dance Company, Antigoni Gyra & Kinitiras a.m.

Since 2005, she has been teaching contemporary dance, improvisation and dance history at dance studios, drama schools and social benefit institutions: DAN.C.CE, Theatre Of Changes etc.

She runs workshops in collaboration with the Greek National Opera’s educational program for women in prison at Thiva, and the Hellenic Theater/Drama & Education Network.