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GIANNIS AGGELAKAS & CHRISTOS PAPADOPOULOS

The Odyssey performed with keyboards, vocals, and musical saw

It started as a friendly chat between Giannis Aggelakas and Olia Lazaridou. It had a sold-out premiere at the Onassis Stegi, went on tour, traveled to Amsterdam, and now it’s on in Thessaloniki. Nekyia, the Odyssey’s seminal Book 11, is a 'surround' sonotropic descent into the Underworld that was created to immerse us in life.
“Descend oh heavens to the land / to shine into our deepest chasms / and let the unbearable silence be transformed / to roars, to cries, and to words.” Nekyia, created by the legend of the Greek rock music scene Giannis Aggelakas and the revelatory sensation of European choreography Christos Papadopoulos, begins solemnly, evocatively, and mystically as a ritual experience of the seminal Book 11 of the Homeric epic.
A ‘surround’ sonotropic experience is created on stage to depict Odysseus’ descent into the realm of Hades, where, on the advice of Circe, he departs alongside his companions for the Underworld, seeking the prophecy of Teiresias, the seer, to return to Ithaca.
Having already sold out at the Onassis Stegi Main Stage in the 2023–24 season, Nekyia, the genre-defying performance of music, theater, dance, lighting, and oration, is coming to Thessaloniki as “a revelation,” a “hymn to life,” an “epiphany,” as reviewed in the press.
A singular ‘journey’ between light and shadow, alongside the music of Aggelakas and the images created by Papadopoulos. The onstage narration is performed by Olia Lazaridou and Giannis Aggelakas. Along with two musicians, four female vocalists, and sound design by Coti K., they lead us into the abyss of humanity, of ourselves, and of life itself.