ANCIENT SOULS IN HUMAN BODIES
Museo Castromediano Lecce, Puglia, Italy
An experiential and participatory performance designed especially for the Museo Archeologico Sigismondo Castromediano, where contemporary performance merges with ancient mysticism and creates a thread that connects the audience with the museum exhibits in a symbiotic relationship with the past, the present, and the future.
Dissolving The Boundaries
In the site-specific performance "Ancient Souls In Human Bodies," created in just nine days by the multifaceted artist Apostolia Papadamaki, spectators were deeply engaged with their emotional and spiritual selves. Performers and audience members shared every moment in an active, participatory, and embodied way.
This experience was an archaic and contemporary ritual, weaving together dance, music, and singing. For lovers of Ancient Greece and Griko civilizations, it offered a rejuvenating immersion into the universal values of harmony, spirituality, and communion between the natural and supernatural.
For contemporary art enthusiasts, it presented a realization where the modern did not exclude the past but integrated it into a fluid circularity, dissolving the boundaries between past, present, and future.
The performance was also an innovative approach to the use of public space. "Ancient Souls In Human Bodies" created a multidimensional, site-specific performative ritual that deeply involved spectators in their emotional and mental realms, demonstrating the transformative power of art.
Supporting Organisations & Sponsors
The performance was implemented as part of the 2023 “Tempora/Contempora” festival, organized by AMA (Accademia Mediterranea dell’Attore) in collaboration with the Castromediano Museum in Lecce,Italy.
Premiere: 01/09/2023
Ancient Souls In Human Bodies
Direction, Choreography, Costumes
Apostolia Papadamaki
Original music
Trifon Koutsourelis
Lighting and sound designer
Lorenzo Paladini
Cinematographer
Paolo Caputo
Assistant Choreographer
Rossella Notarnicola
Production of Accademia Mediterranea dell'Attore , Lecce, directed by Franco Ungaro.
Credits
Angelica dell’Anna, Paraskevi Bakis, Ermelinda Bircaj, Sara Colonna, Simone Imbriani, Daniela Nisi, Rossella Notarnicola, Anna Maria Massante, Titti Mastria, Arianna Marangio, Virginia Michail, Miriana Moschetti, Cosimo Muci, Claudia Roselli, Samuele Spagnolo, Gaia Quarta.