LOVE – Χάρης Κούσιος (18+)

What does it mean to grow up in an environment of discipline and strictness? How can one recognise violence and turn towards love? How can one dare to expose themselves and leave silence behind? How can loss be transformed into connection?

Two dancers confess on stage their personal life journeys, their experiences, and their own stories of violence, loss, and survival. In the end, through different paths, they arrive at a shared place: the need for connection, for freedom, for love.

From mourning to celebration, from grief to release. Through confessions marked by humour, harshness, and tenderness, the performance moves constantly between opposites, until they begin to dissolve.

Before the performance begins, the audience is invited to respond anonymously to a series of questions. Their answers co-shape the stage outcome. In this way, the performers’ personal stories are transformed into a collective experience, within which each audience member can recognise themselves.

Love constantly shifts between the personal and the collective, the tragic and the comic. It is a space where violence and loss are expressed and transformed into freedom. A performance that invites the audience to redefine, in deeply personal terms, the meaning of love.

Language: Greek & French (with surtitles in Greek and French)

Age guidance: 18+

Content note: Contains nudity and scenes of violence

Concept – Direction – Choreography: Harry Koushos

Dramaturgy: Eleni Moleski

Texts: Harry Koushos, Odysseas I. Konstantinou

Text editing: Odysseas I. Konstantinou 

Music: Kornilios Selamsis (original composition for flute) Ecati

Camille Saint-Saëns – Le Cygne (The Swan), from The Carnival of the Animals (1911 recording, Maud Powell – violin, Waldemar Liachowsky – piano, Library of Congress archive)

Sound Design: Teo Pouzbouris

Costume Design & Construction: Stefanos Zogopoulos

Lighting Design: Vasilis Peteinaris

VFX: Iasonas Meintanis

Video Art: Andreas Lampropoulos, Dimitris Sakkas 

Visual Identity: Panos Klouvas

3D Design, Printing & Processing (Head, Torso): Michalis Ioannidis

Web Developer: Apostolis Kyriakos

Choreographer’s Assistant: Styliana Apostolou

Performance: Harry Koushos, Amelie Joannides

Flute: Dimitris Yasemidis

Sound references include excerpts from Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach and Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

During the performance, a video excerpt from the piece Death, choreographed by Harry Koushos and performed by Georgios Kotsifakis, is presented. Filming by Suzana Fialas.

The project is realised within the framework of the “Terpsichori 2026” programme of the Department of Contemporary Culture – Deputy Ministry of Culture of Cyprus.

Acknowledgements:

Marianna Vasilaki (psychologist – text consultancy support)

Alexandros Papathanasopoulos, Katerina Bei and Marilena Kalaitzantoni

Tickets: € 15 / 10