Mystery 89 - Elefsina by Night
Persephone Reconsiders Her Fate

Mystery 89 Elefsina by Night
Persephone Reconsiders Her Fate
Performance – worldwide premiere

7 & 8 JULY 2023
VLYCHA – Ship Graveyard

Interdisciplinary Art Project
A work by globally renowned Eleftheria Deko: six light installations and one dance performance by the founders of the legendary PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER in worldwide premiere

1-8 JULY | Light installations in the city of Elefsina

7-8 JULY | Persephone Reconsiders Her Fate | Performance – worldwide premiere | VLYCHA – Ship Graveyard

In the context of the art project Mystery 89 Elefsina by Night conceived by globally renowned and multiple award-winning lighting designer Eleftheria Deko, the site-specific performance Persephone Reconsiders Her Fate, by Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig is presented in its worldwide premiere at the unique venue of VLYCHA – Ship Graveyard on Friday 7 and Saturday 8 July.

Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig, artistic co-directors of the legendary PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER (PWDT), famous for their “provocatively subversive, engaging, ironic and deeply moving” work and their site-specific installations around the world, choreographed and directed exclusively for Mystery 89 Elefsina by Night the performance Persephone Reconsiders Her Fate, which will make its worldwide premiere at VLYCHA – Ship Graveyard on Friday 7 and Saturday 8 July.

Throughout the dance performance that is accompanied by an impressive light show, Kore-Persephone reintroduces herself to reveal all her aspects before she is immersed into the kingdom of dead ships, before she travels to the amorphous seas of the unconscious and is reborn in Mother Earth, gifting us her wisdom, knowledge and harmony.

Dance performance Persephone Reconsiders Her Fate

Dates: Friday 7 & Saturday 8 July 2023
Time: 21.30 / Arrival Hours: 20:30
Duration: 50 minutes
Venue: VLYCHA – Ship Graveyard / Meeting Point: Parking – Old Oil Mill Factory (View map here)
[Access to Vlycha will be carried out exclusively by buses from the Parking of the Old Oil Mill Factory]

Tickets: General admission €5
Tickets for disabled persons with wheelchair are sold exclusively via phone: (+30) 210 7234567.

Creative team
Concept: Eleftheria Deko
Lighting installations design: ELEFTHERIA DEKO & ASSOCIATES

Performance Conceived by - Choreographed & Directed by: Sara Pearson & Patrik Widrig – PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER

Performers:
Dancers from the PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER: Angad Kalsi, Tzveta Kassabova, Stephanie Miracle & Connor Voss & trainees Nneka Onyima & Ryan Smith
Students of the University of Maryland: Shekinah Brown, Charlene Cowan, Charlotte Macko, Layla Nordrum & Brian Wilson

Sound design - Music for the performance: Sam Crawford
Poem composed by: Shekinah Brown, Sara Pearson
Poem interpreted by: Shekinah Brown, Stella Rizou
Music for the light show: Stavros Gasparatos
Design for the video & light show: Eleftheria Deko

Costume design: Nefeli Myrtidi
Assistant for the lighting installations: Vasiliki Gogou

Assistants: Athanasia Lazou, Afroditi Neri
Technical support - Sound & Light installation: Kariotis Audio & Lighting
Construction - Installation of lighting: LightsOn
Organisation - Production: DIADROMES POLITISMOU

Project coordination: Isavella Dimitra Karouti - Head of General Artistic Directorate Support 2023 Eleusis

A production by 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture

Access to Elefsina
Just 21km from the center of Athens, one of the most important sacred cities of antiquity, the city of the Eleusinian Mysteries and birthplace of Aeschylus, Elefsina is the fourth European Capital of Culture hosted in Greece. You can access Elefsina in the following ways:

Via car or motorcycle via Attiki Odos or Athinon Avenue, just a 25-minute drive from the Athens city center.
Via bus (lines 845 and 871 from Piraeus, line 876 from the “Agia Marina” metro station and line 878 from Acharnai).
Via the suburban railway (Magoula Station and then bus line 863).
Via KTEL (intercity public transport bus service -> line Megara – Nea Peramos – Eleusis; starting point at Asomaton Square, Thission).