June 2025
BAGKEION

Presentation within the framework of the “Passages” Festival

An Ode to the Senses

DESCRIPTION

The performance “Sleeping Beauties” was presented as a movement-based interpretive act within the Passages festival, organized at the historic Bagkeion Hotel by graduates of the Athens School of Fine Arts. The work unfolded as a ritualistic event dedicated to the five fundamental human senses — touch, hearing, sight, taste, and smell — transforming the space into a field of experience rather than mere observation.

CREATOR’S NOTE

The performance “Sleeping Beauties” was created from the need to explore the five human senses. The approach focused on an experiential immersion in sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste, while at the same time developing characters that touched upon the imaginary and the mythical.

It is a work of sensual intoxication and surrender to the senses — those that render the body consciously alive and place it fully within life.