Heart’s Sacred Touch | Arianna Economou/ Echo Arts

Heart’s Sacred Touch

“There is but one History. And that is the Soul’s search for the knowable and unknowable homeland of the Human Spirit, leading to the Sacred Sites of the soul”

A performance by Arianna Economou/ Echo Arts

With Composer and singer Helen Chadwick  ( UK)

Heart’s Sacred Touch is a quest, a journey to come to terms with death, with at its heart a longing for peace and the healing transformative nature of creativity. The work reflects on how, in spite the chaos surrounding us today, there is still beauty.

The work, though it is a continuation of Arianna’s quest journeys for the Sacred Sites on the island, this time the quest is in search of the Sacred Sites of the Soul: a search for the knowable and unknowable homeland of the human spirit.

In this work Arianna Economou with composer-singer Helen Chadwick (UK) and singers Kristia Michael and Marios Nicolaides, carries on her search into the sacred, turning her gaze to the Byzantine frescoes of the little churches tucked away up in the Mountains of Troodos. Painted on the inside walls of these womb-like churches, the frescos once acted as a membrane that held and touched the communities of these mountain villages, guiding their journey from birth to death and beyond. They reflect the beauty of nature that surrounds them.

The rich pigment used comes from the depths of the earth in the mines nearby. The paintings touch and open our hearts with the movement of the cloth that wraps around bodies in the archetypal stories of the Great Mother and Daughter in cyclical time, birth – death – rebirth, and of the Divine Mother and her Son in the transformational spiral from Earth to Eternity.

A homage to Beauty.

Concept/ Direction/ Research/ Texts / Dramaturgy/ Performer: Arianna Economou

Performers/ Singers/ Live Acapella  : Helen Chadwick ,  Kristia Michael ( CY/ NL)  Marios Nicolaides ( CY / Gr)

Dramaturgy: Anna Luyten (Brussels)

Dramaturgical support : Elena Agathocleous, Giorgos Bizios

Texts:  Arianna Economou with the support of Anna Luyten & Giorgos Bizios

Lighting : Yiorgos Lazoglou

Visual Support (post production video film): Yiannos Economou

Costume Design : Anastasia Demetriou, Arianna Economou

External Collaborator : Evagoras Vanezis

Photography & Video : Natalie Konyalian  & Stylianos Chrysostomou

Stage Design advisor and Poster Design : NAAMA STUDIO (UK)

Production Management: Napa Gavriel / Echo Arts

Academic Support on sources around Byzantine Frescoes : Dr. Anthi Andronicou

Heart’s Sacred Touch is dedicated to the loving memory of Ruth Keshishian, friend and colleague of Arianna’s work since 1995.

Funded by the Terpsichore Program of Department of Contemporary Culture of the Deputy Ministry of Culture

To book your seats call : 96 862020 

Entrance Free