The Great Tamer by Dimitris Papaioannou (2017)
Music Arrangement, Associate Lighting Designer, world tour lighting designer and programmer
An international co-production, the work was conceived, visualised and directed by Dimitris Papaioannou in 2017 in Athens, Greece. It premiered at the Onassis Stegi Cultural Center in May 2021 and toured around the globe in more than 40 international festivals.
the work was presented at:
MEGARON - THE ATHENS CONCERT HALL (Athens, Greece)
Brooklyn Academy of Music (New York, USA)
Alexandrinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg, Russia)
ROHM Theatre Kyoto (Kyoto, Japan)
Saitama Arts Theatre (Tokyo, Japan)
Grand Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Centre (Hong Kong, China)
Ruhrfestspiele (Recklinghausen, Germany)
Maison de la Danse (Lyon, France)
Grand Théâtre de Provence (Aix en Provence, France)
Théâtre des Louvrais (Pontoise, France)
Perth Festival (Perth, Western Australia)
Usine C (Montréal, Canada)
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor Michigan, USA)
Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (Los Angeles, California, USA)
Grimaldi Forum Prince Pierre (Monte Carlo, Monaco)
deSingel international arts campus (Antwerp, Belgium)
Festspiele Ludwigshafen (Ludwigshafen, Germany)
LAC - Lugano Arte e Cultura (Lugano, Switzerland)
Sadler’s Wells (London, UK)
HELLERAU – European Center for the Arts Dresden (Dresden, Germany)
One Dance Week Festival (Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
Torinodanza Festival (Torino, Italy)
La Bâtie - Festival de Genève (Geneva, Switzerland)
Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
Théâtre de la Ville at La Villette (Paris, France)
Belgrade Dance Festival (Belgrade, Serbia)
Teatro Municipal do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
CCB - Cultural Centre of Belém (Lisbon, Portugal)
NET Festival (Moscow, Russia)
National Performing Arts Center (Taipei, Taiwan)
Dansens Hus Sweden (Stockholm, Sweden)
CULTURESCAPES Greece (Basel, Switzerland)
Seoul Performing Arts Festival (Seoul, Korea)
Festival d'Avignon (Avignon, France)
Veranos de la Villa Festival (Madrid, Spain)
Grec Festival de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
Napoli Teatro Festival Italia (Naples, Italy)
Holland Festival (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens, Greece)
Conceived, visualized + directed by Dimitris Papaioannou
Performers:
Pavlina Andriopoulou, Costas Chrysafidis, Ektor Liatsos, Ioannis Michos, Evangelia Randou, Kalliopi Simou, Drossos Skotis, Christos Strinopoulos, Yorgos Tsiantoulas, Alex Vangelis
Set Design + Art Direction in collaboration with Tina Tzoka
Artistic Collaborator for costumes Aggelos Mendis
Lighting Designed in collaboration with Evina Vassilakopoulou
Artistic Collaborator for Sound Giwrgos Poulios
Sound Design and operation Kostas Michopoulos
Music Johann Strauss II, An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314
Music Adaptation Stephanos Droussiotis
Sculpture Design Nectarios Dionysatos
Costume – Props Painting Maria Ilia
Creative - Executive Producer + Assistant Director Tina Papanikolaou
Associate Lighting Designer Stephanos Droussiotis
Assistant Director + Rehearsal Director Pavlina Andriopoulou
Technical Director Manolis Vitsaxakis
Stage Manager Dinos Nikolaou
Assistant Sound Engineer Nikos Kollias
Assistant to the Set Designer – Set Painter Mary Antοnopoulou
Assistants to the Sculptor Maria Papaioannou + Konstantinos Kotsis
Production Assistant Tzela Christopoulou
Tour Manager + International Relations Julian Mommert
Executive Production Assistant Kali Kavvatha
Produced by
Onassis Cultural Centre - Athens (Greece)
Co-produced by
CULTURESCAPES Greece 2017 (Switzerland)
Dansens Hus Sweden (Sweden)
EdM Productions
Festival d'Avignon (France)
Fondazione Campania dei Festival – Napoli Teatro Festival Italia (Italy)
Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
National Performing Arts Center - National Theater & Concert Hall | NPAC-NTCH (Taiwan)
Seoul Performing Arts Festival | SPAF (Korea)
Théâtre de la Ville – Paris / La Villette – Paris (France)
Executive Producer
2WORKS
With the support of
ALPHA BANK + MEGARON - THE ATHENS CONCERTHALL
Premiere: 24 Μay 2017, Main Stage, Onassis Cultural Centre - Athens
photos by Julian Mommert