Euripides Laskaridis
(Greece)
Big Pulse Scaling Up Artist
Euripides Laskaridis
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Euripides Laskaridis is a director and performer. Two dominant themes run through his artistic identity: ridicule and transformation. His work transcends the boundaries of theatre, dance, and visual arts. Euripides studied acting in Athens at the Karolos Koun Art Theatre and directing (MFA) in New York at Brooklyn College on an Onassis Foundation Scholarship. He has been performing since 1995, working with such directors as Dimitris Papaioannou and Robert Wilson. He began directing his own work in 2000, which includes stage and site-specific performances, as well as video artworks and award-winning short films.
In 2009, Euripides founded the OSMOSIS performing arts company and presented works at various Greek theatres. The company’s first solo production, RELIC, made it to the Aerowaves 2015 list and opened in Barcelona that same year. Since then, it has appeared at more than thirty-five international festivals and venues in the UK, France, Austria, Italy, Finland, Ireland, Israel, Slovenia, Switzerland, among others, with its journey still ongoing. Euripides’ next work, TITANS, was an international co-production between Greece, France, Canada, the Netherlands, and Portugal and has appeared at more than twenty-five international festivals in Europe, Canada, and China, with more stops to come. The company’s third travelling stage work, ELENIT, premiered in 2019 at the Onassis Stegi and managed to travel in and out of Europe during the pandemic, having completed five years of international touring.
Euripides was awarded an inaugural Pina Bausch Fellowship in 2016, which gave him the opportunity to spend three months alongside director/choreographer Lemi Ponifasio. In 2017, he was included in the German "tanz" magazine's Hoffnungsträger (Promising Talents) list and was briefly named an associate artist at O Espaço Do Tempo – Associação Cultural in Portugal. In 2022, Euripides received an Onassis AiR Fellowship, which provided essential support for his forthcoming project's research.
His new work, LAPIS LAZULI, an international co-production between Greece, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Finland and Bulgaria, premiered on April 4th 2024 at the main stage of Onassis Stegi and is currently embarking on an extensive worldwide journey.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Lapis Lazuli
Scaling Up Co-Production
Lapis lazuli is a metamorphic rock that exhibits unpredictable behavior under pressure. From the mask of Tutankhamun to the Renaissance paintings of Titian and Yves Klein’s (post)modernist monochromatic works, lapis lazuli has graced a legion of artworks with its radiant and mysterious color.
In this new work, Euripides Laskaridis focuses on our existential relationship with fear and terror, seeking to explore a multitude of intriguing dualities, such as the material and the spiritual, the dreamlike and the nightmarish, the conscious and the subconscious, waving on stage a dense web of antitheses. These antitheses are also found—unexpectedly even for the creator/performer himself—within the very name of the stone, which draws its etymology from the conjunction of the Latin word ‘lapis’ (stone) and the Arabian ‘lāzurd’ (light blue), which accordingly derives from the Persian word ‘lājevard’ (heaven). Therefore, lapis lazuli is often rendered as the “Stone from Heaven”.
IMAGE GALLERY
VIDEO TRAILER
CO-PRODUCTION & CREDITS
Conceived & Directed by Euripides Laskaridis
with: Angelos Alafogiannis, Maria Bregianni/Eftychia Stefanou, Euripides Laskaridis,
Dimitris Matsoukas & Spyros Ntogas
Original Music & Sound Design: Giorgos Poulios
Dramaturgy Consultant: Alexandros Mistriotis
Set Design: Sotiris Melanos
Lighting Design: Stefanos Droussiotis
Special Acoustic & Electronic Sound Inventions, Sounding Objects: Yorgos Stenos
Artistic Collaborators – Costumes: Christos Delidimos, Alegia Papageorgiou
Props & Special Constructions: Konstantinos Chaldaios
Artistic Collaborator – Set: Vagelis Xenodochidis
Movement Consultant: Nikos Dragonas
Assistants to the Director: Charikleia Petraki, Yannis Savouidakis
Tour Artistic Collaborator: Marianna Kavallieratos
Artistic Collaborator & Rehearsal Stand-in: Telis Tellakis
Artistic Collaborator Onassis AiR Fellowship 2022 research – Costume: Aggelos Mentis
Artistic Collaborators Onassis AiR Fellowship 2022 research – Set: Loukas Bakas, Filanthi Bougatsou
Technical Director: Konstantinos Margkas
Sound Engineers: Martha Kapazoglou, Giorgos Chanos, Kostis Pavlopoulos
Lighting Technician & Special Lighting Constructions: Giorgos Ierapetritis
Props & Special Constructions Assistant: Timothy Laskaratos
Production Assistant: Nikos Charalampidis
Production Runners: Theologos Kampouris, Lida Manousou Alexiou
Assistant Director Intern: Katerina Tsolou
Set Design Intern & Logo Design: Konstantinos Papantonis
Props Interns: Aphrodite Psychouli, Ilektra Anichini Pantalaki, Efthymis Gronthos
Costumes Intern: Ernesta Chatzilemonidou
Dramaturgy Intern: Jimmy Machai
Directorial Feedback – Tech Weeks: Talya Rubin
Lights Stand-In: Alexandra Drandaki
OSMOSIS Operations Coordinator & Communications Editor: Euklida Velaj
Executive Production, Tour & Production Management: Polyplanity Productions / Yolanda Markopoulou, Vicky Strataki
Photography: Pinelopi Gerasimou, Elina Giounanli, Julian Mommert
Cinematography & Colour Correction: Nikos Nikolopoulos
Video Trailer Editor: Euripides Laskaridis
A project by Euripides Laskaridis & the OSMOSIS performing arts company [GR]
Produced by Onassis Stegi [GR]
Supported by the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès [FR]
Co-produced by Théâtre de la Ville [FR], Théâtre de Liège [BE], Espoo Theatre Finland
[FI], Teatros del Canal [ES], Teatro della Pergola Firenze [IT], Festival Aperto / Fondazione
I Teatri Reggio Emilia [IT] & the Big Pulse Dance Alliance festivals: Julidans [NL],
Torinodanza Festival / Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale [IT], & One Dance
Festival [BG]. Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union with the support of NEON Organization for Culture and Development and Megaron – the Athens Concert Hall, with the financial support of the Greek Ministry of Culture. Initial research & development were made possible with the support of the Onassis AiR
Fellowship [GR].
Special thanks to Dimitris Papaioannou & Tina Papanikolaou for their unwavering
support from start to finish! Thank you for your precious time and your priceless guidance throughout this journey. Thanks also to // Irad Avni, Rafailia Bampasidou, Antonia Economou, Doxa Glava, Santi Guillamon, Marianna Kavallieratos, Vicky Kaminari, Kali Kavvatha, Sylvia Liouliou, Vicky Maragkopoulou, Kostas Michopoulos, Drosos Skotis, Stelios Theodorou, Manolis Vitsaxakis. And to Papapostolou Orthopedics & Medical Supplies for kindly providing the anatomical skeleton model.
PRESS
"The performances of this very idiosyncratic, original creator who is at once a visual
artist, choreographer, dramaturg, and ingenious constructor, are meant for our
hearts, not our minds."
– MARO VASSILIADOU // I Kathimerini
“Laskaridis’ LAPIS LAZULI comes in a way straight from the future, it almost screams
in the face of the mundane and leaves a legacy on stage of a daring artist, determined
to continue creating with defiance leaving aside the traditional conservative clarity
that contemporary theatre unfortunately often seeks.”
– CHRISTOS TSIFAS // I Avgi
“LAPIS LAZULI by the masterful Euripides Laskaridis is an unrelenting allegory for the
transformative power of theatre—a testament to the expansive intellect of theatrical
performance. An onnagata werewolf and a seahorse who perished in his arms.”
– GIORGOS SAMPATAKAKIS // Associate Professor of Drama and Performance, University of
Patras
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