Hounds of Madness
The performance Hounds of Madness draws from Euripides' The Bacchae, exploring notions of collectivity, ritual, and ecstasy.
This production delves into one of history's earliest fictional accounts of female bodily autonomy. Hounds of Madness brings together a diverse group of women with and without sensory and motor disabilities, a group that in Modern Greece struggles to find their place both within society and on the stage. Their presence mirrors the women in the original play, who fled to the mountain of Kithairon to escape control.
This choreography aimed to bridge historical traces with a contemporary approach and readings which invite for a diverse bodily autonomy, showing that the Chorus can be reimagined and reinterpreted nowadays as a resilient, autonomous collective. A transcendent dance composed in a post-Bacchae universe.
The production takes place in the framework of the program 2025 of the Ministry of Culture "All of Greece one culture".
Credits
Concept: Maria Koliopoulou, Vasia Baketea
Choreography Maria Koliopoulou
Performed by
Katerina Gevetzi, Christina Karagianni, Demy Papathanasiou, Ino Riga, Ismini Slijper.
Artistic advisor Mariza Vinieratou
Music Yiannis Isidorou
Dramaturgy collaboration Betina Panagiotara
Voice coaching / dramaturgy Anna Pangalou
Costumes Vasia Baketea
Lighting design Thomas Economacos
Makeup artist: Ioanna Kountouri
Consultation on Aesthetics of Access for Blind and Visually Impaired Audiences: Smaragda Vagia
Production Assistant Ioanna Kiriaki Adamopoulou
Communication Evaggelia Scrobola
Photographer All Greece One Culture Giannis Antonoglou
Production Prosxima Dance Company
The production takes place in the framework of the program 2025 of the Ministry of Culture "All of Greece one culture".
Duration 50’
Premiere 20.08.2025 Archaeological Museum of Thebes
