The Benaki Museum presents the show in the Piraeus Street building “Dance me to the end of Greece 1…Foreign Tourists in Greece” which will last from 17/02/2012 until 18/02/2012.
This is the first stage presentation of travel texts signed by famous travelers of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The actors of the show participate in a storytelling forum, representation and song through poems by Byron and Satovriandos set to music, while they animate the testimonies of famous travelers such as Hans Christian Andersen, Gustave Flaubert, but also the younger Jacques Lacarriere and Henry Miller.
Direction: Spanou Sunday
Sets-Costumes: Apostolos Vettas- Olympia Sideridou-Martha Fokas
Music: Kostas Bombolos
Photos: Manolis Papadakis
Actors: Eleni Efthymiou, Frosso Zagoreou, Themis Mitropoulos, Antonis Gritsis
Piano: Emilios Politis
As part of the performance, the audience will have the opportunity to navigate the original multimedia application entitled ¨Athens through the eyes of the Tourists: 1719th century”, production of the Benaki Museum, which attempts to reconstruct the portrait of the city in that period, through from 500 works of the Collection of Paintings, Engravings and Drawings, several illustrated editions of the Museum Library, as well as selected texts of various travelers who visited it.
There will be two shows specifically for schools (large Primary classes, Middle School and High School):
Wednesday 15 February, 11.00
Wednesday 29 February, 11.00 18/02/2012.
Source : culturenow.gr


