Ena Ena

17 – 20.11.2021 | Exhibition Hall -1 | 19:30 & 22:00

First performance: Wednesday November 17, 2021 at 22:00

Watch the trailer https://youtu.be/EyUrLjfTMow

Inside a provincial nightclub dating to another decade, with retsina and beer, plastic chairs and folk clarinets and electronic music. A strange feast day celebration is descending on Onassis Stegi, from November 17 to 20. Thanasis Deligiannis, part of a new generation of international Greek music artists, and Dutch company I/O are coming to Greece after their appearance in Utrecht at the major Gaudeamus festival to install the singular “ENA ENA” in the Onassis Stegi Exhibition Hall (-1). How many times have we gotten to go to Onassis Stegi and sit at tables for four, free to drink alcohol if we choose? "ENA ENA" is the name of an imaginary Greek rural nightclub. Literally meaning ‘one by one,’ it reminds us of the phrases ‘step by step,’ ‘bit by bit,’ ‘piece by piece.’

Thanasis Deligiannis, known for his collaborations with such music ensembles as AskoSchönberg, the Nieuw Ensemble, and the Atlas Ensemble, and with such directors as Dimitris Papaioannou (“Since She”), notes: “Triggered by a childhood memory and spurred by the experience of a festivity cut unexpectedly short, the space and occasion that is a feast day celebration form the core around which many of my questions await an answer. Taking my own personal experiences and their audial impressions as a starting point, I was drawn to feast day celebrations of the 1980s. During the course of my research, I studied a wide range of sound recordings, photographs, and event videos to discover a rich world of variations. The outdoor feast day celebration and its transferal to indoor city venues – “klarina” (folk clarinet) nightclubs – to a large extent created a framework within which traditional Greek music took new paths. Gradually assimilating the possibilities of amplification brought on by electric power, a new aesthetic was formulated that affected how this music was both performed and received. A hybrid form since the start, I believe that it constitutes – right down until today – an overlooked and misunderstood part of the Greek folk art live performance tradition.”

The performance of "ENA ENA" deals with surfaces of memories. A band, a singer, a waiter, and a security camera give life to the world of the performance, interacting with each other and the audience. The music is a microtonal amalgam of the Greek 70s to 90s culture of ‘klarina,’ blended with improvised parts, electronic music, and field recordings, while making use of the heavily "amplified" aesthetics of that era; an uncanny ‘panegyri,’ the Greek traditional party at the countryside.

Credits

Concept, Stage Direction, Sound Design, Performance: Thanasis Deligiannis

Set & Light Design: Roelof Pothuis

Dramaturgy: Yannis Michalopoulos

Assistant Director & Production Assistance: Danai Belosinof

Costume Designer: Vasiliki Sourri

Creative Coder: David Jonas

Sound & Stage Technician: Kostas Chaikalis

Technical Manager & Lighting Technician: Κonstantinos Margkas

Lighting Technician: Stijn van Kortenhof

Project Development: Frank Van Der Weij

Voice: Natasa Tsakiridou

Violin: George Dumitriu

Keyboards: Kaja Draksler

Drums: Onno Govaert

"ENA ENA" is created and produced by I/O and co-produced by the ONASSIS STEGI and Gaudeamus. With the support by the Performing Arts Fund (NL), Norma Fonds, and Giorgos Ignatidis

Read more about Thanasis Deligiannis & Ι/Ο

Thanasis Deligiannis is a Greek composer and theater maker based in Amsterdam.

Between 2017-2019 he was artist-in-residence at Gaudeamus, in the context of the program Nieuwe Makers by the Performing Arts Fund NL. In 2018 he was assistant to Heiner Goebbels at Manchester International Festival, while in 2017-2018 he worked at the Tanztheater Wuppertal – Pina Bausch Company as a member of Dimitris Papaioannou’s creative team. Since 2018 Thanasis teaches at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. He has worked as assistant artistic director for the Nieuw Ensemble between 2011-2014 and artistic coordinator of the Atlas Lab for intercultural music between 2011-2016.

In 2013 he co-founded the Amsterdam-based company I/O along with a team of artists of various backgrounds, focused on the creation of crossover performances.

The Amsterdam-based I/O company is a team of artists who create crossover performances with a focus on sound. Their work brings together new technologies and the interaction among different art disciplines. Among I/O’s interests are the exploration of hybrid artistic forms and the constant redefining of the dialogue between the audience and the artwork. Core members of I/O are Thanasis Deligiannis, Roelof Pothuis, David Jonas, George Dumitriu, Kaja Draksler, and Danai Belosinof.

Production Info

107-109 Syngrou Avenue

November 17-20, 2021

Exhibition Hall -1

Performances: | 19:30 & 22:00

Duration: 70 minutes

Due to the show's requirements, audience members will be seated in tables, up to 4 people in each one, though drink consumption is optional.

An ID card or passport must also be presented, for verification purposes. Specially appointed staff will check these certificates by scanning the relevant QR code using the official “CovidFreeGr” app. Read more here.

Here at Onassis Stegi, everyone’s safety is our prime concern.

Tickets

Full price: 12 €

Groups (10+ persons): 9 €

Neighborhood residents: 7 €

People with Disabilities & the Unemployed: 5€

Companions: 7 €

For group bookings, please contact: groupsales@onassis.org

The digital ticket/print@home service is available for all tickets purchased online. Access the PDF file using your smart device, save your ticket to your Android or iOS wallet, or print it out and proceed directly to the auditorium.

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VISITOR SAFETY GUIDELINES

Hand sanitizer stations are provided throughout the building.

Visitors must make their way directly to the auditoria and are not allowed to linger in the venue’s public areas (such as the foyer).

Tickets are strictly for personal use and are non-transferable.

Performances have no intermission.

The ground floor cloakroom and bar (Liquid Bar) will remain closed.

Audience members must sit in the seats indicated on their tickets – no seating changes are allowed.

Please follow the instructions of our security staff and ushers as you enter and exit the auditoria.

Onassis Stegi reserves the right to eject any ticket holder refusing to follow the rules and regulations set out here.

For Main Stage, Upper Stage, and Exhibition Hall (-1) events, use of the elevators is restricted to two persons at a time. Face masks must be worn.

Access to the underground car park is limited to drivers of vehicles. Face masks must be worn.

The Onassis Stegi ticket office will remain closed. Tickets cannot be printed out on site.

Tickets can be purchased on our website (onassis.org) and via our call center.

Visitors must print out their own tickets before arrival, or present them in digital form.