In Music Dance Theatre, the music should provide the reason and the context for other forms of artistic expression to evolve. The music forms the axis upon, around and through which the human body expresses the world it carries within. Music replaces what would have been expressed through conventional speech. It is as if it happens in the brain and the senses of the stage performer, formulating and projecting conscious and subconscious thoughts, feelings, and (re) actions. This is the Theatre of Sound.
In Music Dance Theatre, the music should provide the reason and the context for other forms of artistic expression to evolve. The music forms the axis upon, around and through which the human body expresses the world it carries within. Music replaces what would have been expressed through conventional speech. It is as if it happens in the brain and the senses of the stage performer, formulating and projecting conscious and subconscious thoughts, feelings, and (re) actions. This is the Theatre of Sound.
ANTIGONE
A Music Choro-Dramatic Act
a compilation of extracts from two different productions of the work.
(a) Gorlitz – Germany and (b) Athens Concert Hall.
«… “Christos Pittas created a music score for Voice, Music Instruments and Electronic Sound. The mighty presence of powerful percussion and the voice of Spyros Sakkas as ‘Choros’ created an atmosphere of fear and threat. The emotionally charged music provided the ideal setting to the dancers but also for the dramatic confrontation between Creon and Antigone (actors) and Choros which was also musically expressed”.
«In “Spring” the role of music is not to ‘accompany’ the movement. The music is the alter ego of the stage performers. It is within them and their bodies respond to it in various, often unexpected ways.
SPRING
A Music Choro-Dramatic Act
The music work was initially inspired by a Marios Pontikas short story under the same title.
With Charlotte Broom/ Luc Jacobs (Northern Ballet Theatre) Kate Robinson (violin) Justin Pearson (violoncello) Katherine Rockhill (piano) Electronic Soundtrack.
SPRING
A Music Choro-Dramatic Act
The music work was initially inspired by a Marios Pontikas short story under the same title.
With Charlotte Broom/ Luc Jacobs (Northern Ballet Theatre) Kate Robinson (violin) Justin Pearson (violoncello) Katherine Rockhill (piano) Electronic Soundtrack.
«In “Spring” the role of music is not to ‘accompany’ the movement. The music is the alter ego of the stage performers. It is within them and their bodies respond to it in various, often unexpected ways.
IDOLA
Concerto for two dancers and orchestra
With the London Chamber Orchestra, leader Irvin Arditti. Conductor the composer.
«…” In ‘Idola’ Christos Pittas used the musicians of the London Chamber Orchestra to create a sequence of passages in a variety of different rhythms and with strange orchestral timbres. A work of exceptional power.”
“Cassandra’s Wedding”
A Music- Choro Dramatic Act based on a poetic text by Tony Harrison with additional texts by Aeschylus. Christos Pittas completed this composition in 2018. It is written for a female actor/vocal performer, two dancers, male vocal ensemble of six, ten instrumentalists and Electronic Soundtrack. It has not yet been performed.