Euripides Laskaridis

(Greece)

Portrait of Euripides Laskaridis

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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