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Merging contemporary performance and Ancient Mysticism to create site-specific, participatory, and immersive productions, Anamnesis aims to activate remembrance of the quests of the soul,  awakening a profound sense of connection to our shared heritage and one another.

The interdisciplinary project Anamnesis was started in 2018 by Greek director and choreographer Apostolia Papadamaki. Anamnesis following has since created innovative performances in emblematic archeological sites and museums supported by public and private bodies.

Anamnesis is a site-specific,  multidisciplinary, participatory performance in celebration of sacred spaces. It is also a methodology or a model on how to create contemporary interactive rituals that blend the arts, mythology,  history of religion, and archeology, to activate remembrance of the quests of the soul originally derived from these sites in Antiquity.

It is an invitation to witness, to feel the hidden values that are deeply rooted in the archeological site via a harmonious dance with history and mythology, seeking to awaken imagination and sensitivity, to achieve unity with its cultural heritage, nature, and ourselves.

Anamnesis combines multiple expressive media and aims to activate different fields of perception. Anamnesis refers to mythology and history to explore human existence now, increase awareness of human potential, and question the self-imposed limitations of our ideas about our being and nature itself.

Apostolia Papadamaki, the artistic director of Anamnesis, and her colleagues compose a unique palimpsest of performative acts in each archeological site combining multiple tools of expression, in direct and harmonious response with Nature, activating different levels of awareness, and exploring seen and unseen realms of reality.

Without any intention of "reviving" but aiming to coexist with the archeological site, Anamnesis is a methodology that co-creates conditions of synchronicity so that the thread of art continues with an uninterrupted evolutionary course to better humanity, in which the Greek spirit plays a decisive role.

ænæmˈniːsɪs/; Ancient Greek: ἀνάμνησις