WALTER BENJAMIN : ON THE CONCEPT OF HISTORY

A performance by Nova Melancholia
 
against the notion of progress
against political reformism
against social conformism
in favor of the feline's vertiginous jump under the vast sky of History
 

details

Performers : Vicky Kyriakoulakou, Mary Lousi, Maria Mitropoulou, Dimitris Pleionis, Manolis Tsipos, Despoina Chatzipavlidou
Text : Walter Benjamin 
New translation : Natascha Siouzouli
Direction : Vassilis Noulas
Sets-Costumes : Dora Economou
Lighting : Thodoris Michopoulos
Videos : Manolis Tsipos
Contrabass : Charis Pazaroulas
 
► BIOS 
[feb-mar 2009, premiere: 12 february 2009]
 
 
 
 

readings

Spring semester 2010 - academic paper ASFA
Time and memory at Walter Benjamin's "On the concept of history"
and the example of a performance by Nova Melancholia theatre group.
by Vassilis Noulas

22.9.2013 - TO BHMA
"Nova Melancholia"
by Giorgos Veltsos

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