PASSACAGLIA / Laura Stefanidis
PASSACAGLIA means "crossing the street". Tragic-comic, poetic-picturesque and realistic-dreamy stories of human diversity are revealed.
A coat is the protagonist of the scene. Countless people have inhabited it; they come and go, reappear and disappear forever. The coat is the costume and the protagonist in one: the thread that carries all these lives and sets them in motion with poetry, gestures and colourful landscapes. The coat knows them to the core.
PASSACAGLIA is an invitation to be taken into the inner worlds of the passers-by who walk the street beside us. A flowing transformative painting of diverse longings, fears and dreams, a gentle and unsparing examination of all that we hide in our lives - as if under a coat.
Concept, direction, performance Laura Stefanidis Mentoring, Choreography Athanasia Kanellopoulou Music Ermis Tomadakis
Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the program NEUSTART KULTUR and Wiese eG Hamburg.
Laura Stefanidis studied Physical Theatre at the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris and at LISPA (currently: Arthaus Berlin) in Berlin. As a Physical Theatre artist, director and workshop and movement practitioner, she finds her inspiration in the martial art Shaolin Kung Fu, mask theatre, dance and circus. She collaborated with theatre and dance artists and companies such as Gozde Atalay (GR), Familie Flöz (D),Evi Arnsbjerg Brygmann's (DK), Michelle Madsen (UK), Taxivi Kompanie (D), Maya M. Carroll ( D, GR) , Athanasia Kanellopoulou (GR), Klabauter Theater (D). She facilitates workshops internationally in Physical Theatre and movement.