we could be heroes
In the darkness, the monster comes out.
It was always there, but you never acknowledged how much it scares you.
How much you scare you.
Are you too busy to live?
How do you ignore death?
Does your silence suffocate you?
Is it all a little too much?
CONCEPT AND CHOREOGRAPHY: EVA PAPADOPOULOS
PROJECT ASSISTANCE: PIA SCHWARZ
LIGHT AND PIANO: NATAN SINIGAGLIA
PERFORMERS: YURI SHIMAOKA, MARIA PASADAKI,
GUILLAUME LEMOINE, KATJA ZEYNER-RASYM,
PIA SCHWARZ, NATAN SINIGAGLIA, EVA PAPADOPOULOS
MENTOR: SITA OSTHEIMER
HZT ADVISORS: CHRISTIANE BERGER, NIK HAFFNER


Through a shifting aural landscape, the space comes alive in shadow and light. The performers, like a choros of an ancient Greek tragedy using voice and movement, try to bring to our conscious the most primal in us and face to face with the Sisyphean task of being human; our common shared experience.
An exploration of the inner landscape, inverted; of the perceived and the real.
*The inspiration for this piece has been the concept of the shadow as described in Carl Jung's work on individuation and Joseph Campbell’s ‘Hero with a Thousand faces’.
ON THE CHOREOGRAPHY
This choreography emerged from my artistic practice, an amalgamation of voice, somatics, ritual and healing practices.
The voice—acting as an extension of the breath—guides the body in movement, improvisation, and spatial creation. Improvisation with other bodies extends beyond the tactile and visual to include the aural, which becomes a counterpart to other improvisational elements.
The dancers explored embodied memories, drawing on principles from Carl Jung's shadow work and ritual practices inspired by Shamanic and Ancient Greek traditions. The abstraction of the material mirrors the nature of our internal emotional landscapes—elusive yet real.
Each performer engages in storytelling through movement and sound, often juxtaposed with live video art, as they navigate both personal and collective "hero's journeys."
The format draws inspiration from the communal act of Ancient Greek theater, where the audience surrounds the stage and is called upon as an active participant of this happening.
ON THE SOUND
ON THE DRAMATURGY
