Care allows for play and freedom.
David Graeber
ROBA is the journey of two human figures on a passage through time. In a strange game of hide and seek, through a multiplicity of masks and forms they move backwards and forwards, on and off, in a space that is assembling and disassembling itself around them with the help of a mysterious third maker.
Something is leaking. Someone is singing. Everything is sick.
Through a physical theatre of image and sound, light and dark, ROBA explores the upside down world of care and the possibility of finding freedom through sickness.
If we have everything to lose when we are sick, then might sickness become a paradigm for freedom?
Built from the archiving of gestures, sounds, images and the experience of caring for someone we love, ROBA is the transposition of these fragments into a ceremony for play and freedom. It is the result of 4 years of research and collaboration with an extraordinary group of artists, friends, experts and hidden forces.
We are grateful for the support of Arts Council England, Dance and Ballet School Elisavet Georgoudi, Clod Ensemble and the many donors who have made the piece possible.
Created by JEUDi
Idea, Concept and Design: JEUDi
Direction: Simon Gleave and Korina Kokkali
Performers: Simon Gleave, Korina Kokkali & Maria Papachristopoulou
Music and Sound Composition: Adam Clifford and Gary Salomon
Sound Design: Yorgos Chanos
Set Design: Thalia Melissa & JEUDi
Lighting Design: Eliza Alexandropoulou & JEUDi
Premiere: 11.03.2024 Athens, Greece
PLYFA, Korytsas 39, Athens
More info: https://plyfa.space/event/roba/