For this international co-production Elli Papakonstantinou writes in tandem and directs a new piece after Euripides’ Bacchae with an emphasis on an all inclusive world. 

It is a piece across the borders between genres; epistemological borders, between scientific, and fictional languages; the borders of gender ; the borders between languages and nationalities, those that separate humanity from animality, the living from the dead, the borders between today and history. 

My piece lies in the intersection of identities and realities (humans/gods, male/female, classes etc.) Queer here relates to a way of understanding not only gendered identities but also aesthetics, politics, language, structures of thought.

Bacchae is a piece on asymmetry and undefinability. I understand queer not as a moral but as a political notion, if we believe that politics are open not only to the affairs of Man, to Marxism, to class, but to the world. Over and above us. Open to Animals, to Things. -When put in the context of today’s world, morality has to become a way that promotes the survival of all beings. 

In my process of creation, I take for the first time the challenge to co-write the piece in tandem with great thinkers from a wide range of fields such as schizoanalysis, philosophy, poetry. This I believe to be an enriching deepening experience that enfolds the otherness in its making.  

As a director, I follow the line of visuals, the line of dance and the line of music. My intention is to work in all three directions. The Bacchae that I wish to create are built on compositional risks and unfamiliar corporealities.