00:00Konterkraft, one of the emblematic works of Pina Bois, the German choreographer who decisively influenced the form and content of contemporary dance, has been presented at the National Theatre in Athens.
00:1837 years after its first presentation in Greece, the work is now a production featuring exclusively Greek performers, aged 21 to 55.
00:30By the time we got to Kontaktov, which was 1978, we had already done a lot of revolutionary pieces.
00:40Many danced operas, we have had the tomatoes, people walking out from the public, slamming doors.
00:52I was there in that time, so slowly, slowly, by the time we did Kontaktov, people were not leaving.
01:01She had become rather well-known, like an insider cult figure with her new way of working, non-dancing.
01:11The woman herself was so beautiful, first of all, when she was younger. She was able to manipulate. Her ideas were unique.
01:24I was able to give them to her and we were able to form and shape certain pieces with very human daily lives of peoples.
01:36Her work was always interesting for me and I loved all the music that she put into the pieces. She was a genius, yeah.
01:45In 2002, Daphnis Korganos became Peanut Bosch's assistant.
01:51And that was something that was really true. And that's why it all came to us.
01:58Because it's something that all came to us. It's something that we all came to us.
02:03And that's why we all came to us. It's something that we all came to us.
02:06It's something that we all came to us. It's something that we all came to us. It's something that we all came to us. It's something that we all came to us.
02:18We all came to us. We all came to us every day. And these things, the daily things, they made it and made it as it made it.
02:29Kontakhoff was first performed in 1978 at the Vupertale Opera
02:34and is a landmark of Peanut Bosch's early period.
02:38The Kontakhoff for me is exactly a place of a meeting of 23 people,
02:47who are present in a, in a way, a place of a place, asking people.
02:53It's a message of all our lives and all our existence,
02:59through the eyes of Peanut Bosch.
03:01And I think that's what happens to us who watch it.
03:05For me, it's a place of freedom.
03:09You can see a picture of a society.
03:11Many times I feel like I'm a place
03:14with all these good and bad times
03:16in a closed world,
03:18which goes from the smallest to the smallest.
03:22The play is on tour, often including different age groups of performers.
03:27Why are you?
03:28Why are you waiting for me?
03:29Because I know that.
03:30Why are you waiting for me?
03:31Because I know some of that.
03:32Why are you waiting for me to stay there?
03:33Because we don't go up in the morning.
03:34I know I know that.
03:35It's sitting there.
03:36You're waiting for me!
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