Based on J. L. Borges’ writings, the “Blue Line” wishes to create a universe made of the elements of dreams, a visual universe in privileged relationship with Borges’ “library universe”, where everybody gets lost in his pursuit of the meaning.
Central to Borges’ work, notion and terms such as the illusion, the dreams and nightmares, the labyrinths, the mirror, the dreamer, the other self become the milestones of a performance that tries to animate on stage the multileveled relationship between the reality and the dream.
The performance takes the form of a journey into the writer’s thoughts. During the creative process he faces the “Minotaurs” of his very existence: life and death, reality and illusion, recollection and oblivion.
The blue line unfolds the story: it is the ink that inscripts forms and notions into the empty page; as it unfolds, it reveals the story; it is the poetry that makes the story.
The blue line is an attempt to create a visual universe that can denote eloquently a man’s perception of reality, a universe that is able to engage into a dialogue on the notion of existence and communication with our own selves.
The “Blue Line” is a visual performance where poetry meets with the universe of hints, dance with theatre and object animation with visual arts.
Concept – Direction - Set design: Antonis Koutroumpis
Choreorgaphy: Antonis Koutroumpis, Olga Gerogiannaki, Thenia Koutroumpi
Music design / composer: Minas Emmanouil
Lighting design: Christina Thanasoula
Costumes: Maria Cataropoulou
Performers: Antonis Koutroumpis, Olga Gerogiannaki, Thenia Koutroumpi
