Atitlon Finale - A Work By Antonia Oikonomou

ATITLON finale by Antonia Economou returns for a final round of performances. Economou’s acclaimed production ATITLON finale returns to the stage for one last series of performances, taking place on June 12, 13, 14, and 15 at Sychrono Theatro in Athens. 

An invisible hand paints and the ghosts of the creator appear in flesh and bones. In a haunted landscape, he now stands as a mere spectator. A painting slowly appears in three dimensional form and is immortalized “inside” the white canvas. The distorted figures that emerge leave behind traces and imprints of their paths. Trapped in the black and white reality of the canvas they document a story of love, loss and trauma. Like an incomprehensible chaos that, much like nature itself, creates order. A figurative allegory for the universal need of humans to create, come into conflict and fall in love through the body - whose memory, and as memory - is condemned to return to the wounds it believes it has forgotten.

Atitlon is the greek translation of the word ‘’untitled’’, a direct reference to modern painting and the artistic practice to leave paintings without a subject matter description through a title. 

Choreographer Antonia Economou writes: "ATITLON began in 2019 and the creative process was interrupted due to lockdown. During this period, I started experimenting with moving images, using cinematic and visual means. These slowly discovered paths lead me to create a new version of ATITLON, reapproaching it as a black and white film, as moving painting - a multilayered world-that nurtures a story about love and separation, loss, and memory, entropy and falling, the gaze and trauma. I feel ATITLON finale is a “sum up”, a last chance to revise and renew this material. I returned back to the nature and choice of our untitled title which gives away that this work is never finished or solidified in order to be confined and fully described through a title, while its meaning remains open ended. For me it is a work, a piece, in progress- its end hanging from a thread, a sudden breath-in- always in need of the viewer's gaze in order to be complete. 

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Credits

Concept - visual space - direction -choreography: Antonia Economou

Sound engineer-sound direction: Giorgos Kravvaritis

Original music: Constantine Skourlis

Music: Vivaldi "Pieta-Sacred Works (for alto)"

Assistant choreographer: Eirini Damianidou

Muse | Xenia Stathouli

Narcissus | Pavlos Lykoudis

Chaos | Nikos Tsolis

Eros | Orestis Alexiadis

Chorus: Alex Drandakis, Haris Hatziandreou, Antonia Pitoulidou

Original chorus cast-material devised by: Klaus Shehaj, Xenia Tabourlou, Eirini Damianidou

Set design: Lydia Lampropoulou

Lighting design: Vangelis Mountrichas

Costumes - special constructions: Konstantinos Chaldaios 

MUA: Petros Tigas

MUA assistants: Stamatis Theocharis, Aggeliki Glavina 

Cinematography / Film: Christos Adrianopoulos

Design: Zoe Kravvariti

Halldorophone: Konstantinos Chinis

Piano: Christos Sakellaridis

Sound design: Nikolas Kazazis 

Production manager: Lydia Lampropoulou

Communication manager: Katerina P. Trichia 

Cinematography: Christos Adrianopoulos

Production: ERGO



Antonia Economou short bio 

Antonia Oikonomou is a choreographer, director, and performer. Through her practice, she creates dance-theater pieces, short films, and solo performances, constantly experimenting with expressive means of representation and moving image across different creative fields. She explores themes such as decay, decadence, and the concept of the human psyche as a labyrinth that teeters between the real and the imaginary.

Her short film SCOTÓMA is traveling to international festivals around the world and has been selected for the Indie Shorts Awards at the Cannes Festival. She studied dance and choreography at London Studio Centre and holds a degree in Art History (BA Hons Degree, American College of Greece).

We would like to thank the following people and artists for their collaboration, material creation, and support: Xenia Tabourlou, Klaus Shehaj, Konstantinos Katsoudas, Petrini Giannakou, Dimitris Tsikoukas, Danae Morfoniou, Iraklis Kotsarinis, Christiane Lange, Adrianos Efthymiadis, Giannis Theodorakis, Achilles Charitos, Orestis Mavroudis, Periklis Skordilis, Iro Irini Daskalaki, Spyros Christakis, Elina Demirtzioglou, Myrto Stolidi, Margarita Tontisaki, Chrysanthi Fytiza, Iris Katraki, Kris Radanov, Project 8, Edgen Lame, Elizabeth Zacharaki, Giorgos Papazoglou, Epameinondas Kitsios, Nelson Eskioglou, Aglaia Pagona, Stella Payati.