BROOKLYN – In his Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) debut, director/choreographer Dimitris Papaioannou impressed the audience with The Great Tamer which ran November 14-16. The world tour of his award-winning creation concludes with two performances at the Megaron Athens Concert Hall.
In the gray and relatively dark set, designed in cooperation with Tina Tzoka, the New York audience at BAM’s Peter Jay Sharp Building was presented with one of the powerful, sometimes provocative, scenes of Papaioannou’s iconography. A naked male body, at first one might assume he was dead, lying in the middle of the stage with one man covering him with a sheet and another using a piece of the set to fan and uncover him. This image, which was repeated several times, was the first of many to follow which referred to the most basic of the archetypal motifs that dominated Papaioannou’s two-hour creation, death.
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