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1961, by Kornilios Selamsis, directed by Haris Frangoulis with text by Giannis Asteris, is a musical work for two voices and six instruments. It tells the story of the unusual love story between Aristea and Fiore.

Presented as part of the Athens Epidaurus Festival at the Little Theatre of Ancient Epidaurus, the work is shaped by the ruin and by our relationship to what is no longer there. It sets out on an excursion into a past that belongs to the dead, to the shadows. The piece is built from a series of sonic and linguistic gestures, weaving together texts and musical fragments drawn from the era of its title (words, songs, fragments of existing songs) into a new musical composition. This work was born from the creators’ sleep among the ruins bequeathed to them.

The performance was part of SYSTEMA – For the Greek Performing Arts, a collaboration between the Athens Epidaurus Festival, the National Theatre of Greece and the Kalamata International Dance Festival to promote contemporary Greek works abroad.