Radio Art welcomes for the month September the great choreographer, Sofia Spyratou who undoubtedly belongs to the top choreographers of our country.

We attended her last performance, “Elektra Instigator”, which was truly captivating.

It was as if a painting was painted right then in front of us with constant color variations drifting us away in a fascinating trip of emotions that only performances of high aesthetics can create.

Sofia Spyratou, based on the tragedy of Euripides, captures the essence of the myth by placing it in white, naked scenery, vague not only in space but also in time, using the talents of a small company of seven actors and five dancers.

“Elektra Instigator” was a performance-study on the complicated relationships of power, passion, but also hatred that cultivate “in a raw eating manner” among Orestis, Klitaimnistra and Elektra, combining modern dancing techniques with narrations.

“Elektra Instigator” has traveled in Greece, in Crimea, where it was awarded the first prize in the “Bosporus Contest”, but also in Korea, closing the International Dance Festival of Seoul.

Sofia Spyratou kept in the structure of “Elektra Instigator” the chorales and the episodes as they are in the ancient tragedy, aligning classism and pioneering. Without doubt music in this Elektra plays a key role and is written by the ingenious Michael Nyman.

Modern dancer and choreographer. Founding member of the “Open Theatre” with studies in the Greek State School of Dance (with Koula Pratsika). In November of 1989 she founded the dance-theater “Roes”, with hundred of performances in Greece and abroad (Monte Carlo, Tirana, Skopia etc.). Among a lot of modern plays, she has attended to the moving in plays of Th. Antoniou, as well as in the opera “Vakxes” (Herodeion Theatre 1995) etc.  In her choreographies dancing and singing play an especially important role. She has choreographed among others for the Greek National Theatre, the Greek Theatre of Art and for the Festival of Epidaurus. In 2000 she was awarded for her work in the ancient drama with the Award Kotopouli - Pratsika.