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Description

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The musical performance Nephelococcygiae and Chirping by Michalis and Pantelis Kalogerakis and Tonia Tzirita Zacharatou explores the relationship between humans and birds. In this stage production, poetic language that has been set to music intertwines with fragments of scientific facts, ornithological findings, and stories about birds.

Original musical compositions inspired by poems penned by Miltos Sachtouris, Napoleon Lapathiotis, Jacques Prévert and others, are presented live by a group of musicians and two performers, as they struggle to investigate the possibility of coexistence between humans and birds in a present that is marked by continuous conflicts. What does survive today from the utopian city of Aristophanes’ Nephelococcygia? What stories are hidden behind seabirds flying to the land in search of food, migratory birds colliding with airplanes, or pigeons in city centers? What songs lie within their flying lives?

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Contributors

Texts, performance
Tonia Tzirita Zacharatou, Pantelis Kalogerakis

Music, performance
Michalis Kalogerakis

Musicians
Lambros Papanikolaou (bass), Stratos Grintzalis (bouzouki, mandolin), Alexis Stenakis (clarinet)
 

Photographer All of Greece, One Culture
Giorgos Kalkanidis
 

Production Execution
BENTEMA PRODUCTIONS 

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The production was carried out within the framework of the 2024 program of the 'All Greece One Culture' initiative of the Ministry of Culture.
 

The event was offered free of charge by the Ministry of Culture.

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More: 

https://allofgreeceone.culture.gov.gr/event/nefelokokkygies-kai-titivismata/

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