"Following Orpheus"

Funded by The European Union, The Youth Programme

Funding received: 3 457,00 Euro

Project dates: 01.07.2005 - 03.10.2005

Partner: OSMOSSIS Association, Athens, Greece

Project description:

This project involved a youth exchange programme with Polish and Greek participants, who worked on a play about Orpheus and Eurydice. Week-long theatrical workshops took place in the Greek town of Tolo, in the Peloponnese, and ended with the premiere of the joined performance on 2nd September 2005 on the Theatraki square in the town of Nafplio. Visual and movement theatre was accompanied by live music and narration by one of the Greek participants, who represented Moira.

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The Polish instructors were Maria Schejbal (theatre) and Tomasz Zielinski (music)

"I would like to show that linguistic and cultural barriers do not exist where art begins. Art crosses all the barriers."

A participant of the youth exchange, before the premiere