Lykourgos
Porfyris

Songs of Chaos:

Songs of Chaos is a collaborative project between the choreographer Roza Moshtaghi and visual and sound artist Lykourgos Porfyris, resulting in a dance work that questions land and landscape ownership. It is a re-minder that the fight for love and safety is a fight we fight together. Songs of Chaos plays on one of Bertolt Brecht’s most famous plays, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, about a peasant girl who rescues an infant and raises him as her own. After the war, the boy’s biological mother wants her son back. The question is: Who has ownership of the child?

 

Songs of Chaos goes a long way in its exploration of breaking with audience expectations. Porpfyris overperforms  the stereotype of the blind wise man and acts as the play’s narrator and guide. The choreographic materialis made in close collaboration with Porfyris’ vision, which

is less than 10% vision.

 

The work consists of five songs, one performance in the theater space, as well as an installation that is animated through performative action in the public space. 

“Who has the time and resources to observe things from a higher position?” These are among the questions Songs of Chaos seeks to answer. The result is highly topical dance art that creates new mythologies and interpretations of common stories.