Zoi Efstathiou

When Did Silence Get This Loud?

The question posed by the work’s title is less a request for an answer than an address – one that acts directly upon the body and mind of the spectator, already aware that answers do not always offer an escape. When did silence get this loud? Through a symphony of movement, sound, light, and vibrations, the dancers and choreographer place silence in dialogue with electricity, probing the ways in which we experience informational overload and sensory noise today. Do silences still exist that weigh upon us?

Emerging from a recent multisensory research process centred on the imprint of kinetic repetition, the piece seeks to foreground oscillation, the continuous flow of electrical current, and the dynamic force of pauses, while reflecting upon the relationship between movement, energy production, and sonic fields. The “deafening silence” of the title is a terrain charged with subsonic traces, electrical pulses, and minute vibrations – elements that may lie beyond the audible spectrum, yet remain perceptible to the body. Waves of low frequencies – transmitted through vibrating subwoofers – transform the act of listening into a fully-fledged somatic experience, where the audience does not merely hear but physically receives the energy, resonating through bone and tissue in alignment with the spatial dimensions of the performance.

A member of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s group Rosas, Zoi Efstathiou blends minimalism with the social signification of movement, delivering a work that is deliberately spare and profoundly collective, one that appeals simultaneously to the spectator’s intellectual restlessness and sensory engagement. Through the interplay of repetition and outward-directed motion, the performance lingers in the moment just before voice emerges, where silence reveals its dual nature: at once sheltering and oppressive.

Duration 45΄

Peiraios 260 (E)

  • 22/07/2026 at 21:30
  • 23/07/2026 at 18:00
  • 23/07/2026 at 21:30
  • 24/07/2026 at 21:30
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