The Hellenic Foundation for Culture Branch in Bucharest presented a performance of dance, music and poetry on March 23 based on the text “The Free Besieged” by Greece’s national poet Dionysios Solomos.
On the occasion of the celebration of the March 25th Greek National Independence Day, the performance was the meeting point of the past and present, tradition and modernism.
Greek dancer and choreographer Amalia Strinopoulou was responsible for the artistic direction of the performance. The performance was a work in progress, the fruit of the workshop of A. Strinopoulou, based at a space kindly provided by the National Dance Centre. Students of the Dance School as well as professional dancers – collaborators of the National Dance Centre – participated in the dance group.
Music was composed by Yannis Markopoulos and Réné Aubry. The Greek actress of the National Theatre of Northern Greece Aphrodite Ioannidou and the Romanian actress of Bucharest National Theatre Adela Mǎrculescu interpreted extracts from the work “The Free Besieged” after the screening of characteristic images by great Greek and non-Greek painters, with a uniting theme being the struggle for freedom of 1821.
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