Loud Whispers | Trailer 0'56'' - Penguin Productions

Loud Whispers is the third part of Athanasia Kanellopoulou’s choreographic trilogy, which focuses on the female gaze. Four powerful performers ‘whisper’ sounds, incomprehensible words, and sacred prayers as they strive to exist, to connect, and ultimately to live within shifting predetermined frameworks. Lovers and mothers, perishable yet sacred figures, converge into the very same person. Elements such as the natural, the supernatural, the silenced, the rebellious and the desired, all find refuge within the body that moves.

Using references from Lauren Groff’s literary world and especially her novel “Matrix” (Polis publications), the choreographer crafts a timeless realm where women’s agonizing need for the essentials of survival unfolds alongside their fight for an authentic self. The successive transformations of the four bodies mirror the change of the social body across mixed eras, generating an urge that breaks through and reflects on what is consolidated within the stereotypical narratives. Illuminating the eternal cycles of creation and rebirth, in the imaginary and real staged world of image hunting, the speed is transformed into a deliberate pace of vital flow, celebrating the strength of women but also of every person of every era who strives, evolves and ultimately lives within the collective in their own, unique way.