CREATA (2023-2025)

Creata has been nominated for the 2025 Performance Art Award by the Greek Theatre Critics Association.

Creata draws material from cosmogonic myths of paganistic religions and christianity, composing an artistic experience that balances between visual performance, installation and live noise show. The meeting point of all these worships was the belief that the world and the humans were created through a great Violence: In the beginning, a god, a giant, a hero or a monster was slaughtered, dismembered and from their body everything was made. The performance explores this exact primordial violence, through a dramaturgical mechanism that makes use of ritualistic elements combining them with electronic hymns and a visceral visual identity.

In the beginning, in a technological world, two Holy Monsters – the last of a primordial species – sacrifice their bodies in order to give birth to the human, from flesh and from light.

What is this being that we define as human? What is the relation of the human of the technological age with the slaughters of the past? What is the boundary of Violence, where one ceases to be human – does it exist? Or maybe the whole of human life is a primordial Violence, a form of suffering we have learned to bear? An electric current passing through the cables of our television screens, our speakers, our blenders, and our fans, and exists in our veins since the beginning?

CREATA premiered at the Prague Quadrennial for Theatre & Performance Design 2023, PQ Studio Stage, DAMU
CREATA was presented in Athens, at TZAMIA KRYSTALLA in December 2024 – February 2025

Conceived and Directed by Fanis Sakellariou
Sound Design – Text: Fanis Sakellariou
Dramaturgy: Daphne Patsourakou
Scenography: Olga Ntenta
Costume Design: Konstantinos Chaldaios
Movement Design: Maro Petli
Lighting Design: Marietta Pavlaki
Artistic Collaborator: Emmanouel Konstantinidis
Production Manager – Constructions: Lydia Lampropoulou

Performers:
Tzamia Krystalla 2024-25: Iony Moschovakou, Maro Petli
Prague Quadrennial 2023: Daphne Patsourakou, Maro Petli

Tzamia Krystalla, Athens, 2024-25
Prague Quadrennial 2023, PQ Studio Stage, DISK Theatre, DAMU