Giorgos Sachinis
Secret Water
The rivers have disappeared from the city’s maps. Yet, maps defy the dimension of height—or depth. Beneath the city’s wrinkled skin, the currents of ancient rivers, torrents, and underground aqueducts continue to flow unseen…
At the intersection of a ravaged river and a forsaken underground channel—where the Cephissus River meets the Hadrian Aqueduct—a modern-day wanderer in Athens encounters the shadows of those intimately connected to the aqueduct throughout its long history. The challenge they set before him seems like a suicide mission: he must descend into the darkness of the underground passage and bring its hidden waters to light. Pushing himself to the very edge, he strives to grant the parched city a miraculous resurgence of water. To persuade him, they must first initiate him into the secrets of the Aqueduct’s resilience—and his own.
Beginning and ending at Dexameni Square in Kolonaki, a theatre and dance performance commences along the banks of the Cephissus River in Kifisia, plunging into the depths of the Roman Hadrian Aqueduct of Athens. The collective Ochi Pezoume / UrbanDig Project, continuously inspired by the Aqueduct, traces humanity’s journey toward an essential awakening to water—a path from the intangible to the material, from the hidden to the revealed.
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Opera | Music | Theatre | grape | subset | Dance | Education | Αναβίωση | Classical music | Performance | Contemporary music | Contemporary Ancients | Premiere | Greek Debut
Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus | Little Theatre of Ancient Epidaurus | Peiraios 260 | Odeon of Herodes Atticus | Lycabettus Theatre | Greek Art Theatre Karolos Koun | Athens Conservatoire | Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Centre Pireos 254 Tavros
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