GONE – Margarita Trikka
Greece
The performance will be followed by an open discussion with the audience.
The work “Gone” broadens the choreographer’s research scope on the theme of Defeat, focusing on collective memory. It is a tribute to the stories of our grandparents during Occupation and Resistance.
By incorporating these stories, the work explores the so-called “difficult heritage,” the wound that remains open, the possibility to overcome it or not, and the imprint it leaves on the collective body as well as on the unique individuals comprising it. When old age turns experience into history, the collective body is there to keep it alive.
Four bodies of different ages are placed in a public space, incarnating a moving sculpture, a living monument to the fallen, who will share the story of their trauma. Drawing inspiration from Lenin’s saying, “One step forward, two steps back,” the choreographer applies it as movement material. The group creates a rhythmic score of bodies, through which the crystallized certainties of a monument gradually melt, transform, and become the testimony of those who fought, were defeated, fell in love, dreamed, and are now elderly, one by one, leaving us. They are leaving. What do they leave behind?
Is there a collective physical memory? Can oral history be integrated? Can dance narrate what is suppressed?
Credits
Concept/Choreography: Margarita Trikka
Original Music: Fotis Siotas
Music/ Sound Design: George Melesanakis
Graphic Design: Mavra Gidia
Movement material creation/Costumes: Nikos Kalivas, Loukia Konidari, Katerina Spyropoulou, Margarita Trikka
Performers: Nikos Dragonas, Loukia Konidari, Katerina Spyropoulou, Margarita Trikka
Video: Manos Arvanitakis
Executive Production: Prolet OCD
Duration: 26 min.
Trailer:
* We sincerely thank the film collective “Collective Memory” for providing audio material from the film The Partisans of Athens.
Margarita Trikka
Margarita Trikka is choreographer, performer and dance teacher based in Athens. She graduated from the Professional Dance School “Rallou Manou” and the Theatre Studies department of National and Kapodestrian University of Athens. In 2017 she founded Prolet OCD dance co. and choreographed 4 dance works toured in several festivals in Greece and Europe. The company has been supported financialy by Greek Ministry. 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 Gor Dance Festival, Rafi Music Theater Company, D.Maramis, V.Koukalani, E.Fanarioti, K.Papakonstantinou, S.Karagianni, M. Protopappa etc.
As a performer, 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 347/ Spyros Kouvaras, Aerites Dance Company, Stella Spirou Cie, Artemis Lampiri, Apostolia Papadamaki, Yelp Dance Company, Antigoni Gyra & Kinitiras a.m.
She has been teaching since 2005 contemporary dance, improvisation and History of Dance at dance studios, drama schools, and social institutions. She runs workshops in collaboration with National Opera’s program for women prison at Thiva and Hellenic Theater/Drama & Education Network.