NARRATIVE ARCHEOLOGY
Narrative Archeology is a tour-guided peripatetic performance which will take place at the Archeological Site of Epidaurus for the first time this year. With the title Epidaurus – The body and the mystery of healing, and through the power of the visual Arts, it intends to bring us into contact with a ‘special narrative’: the singular and extraordinary story of this particular Archeological site. As a research and performative methodology, Narrative Archeology has already been tested in archeological sites in Greece and Italy with noteworthy results, transforming archeological facts into lived experience.
This peripatetic tour-guided adventure asks two major methodological questions:
- Why would someone visit an archeological site?
- What exactly do we seek there?
Narrative Archeology is the backdrop of a creative meeting between historical facts, archeological research, oral history, and visual arts, where scientific knowledge turns into lived experience through coherent dramaturgy and narration. Using the scientific archeological and historical (arte)facts – objects of investigation, source of inspiration, an organic part of the creative process – visual arts are expected to reveal to the visitor the site’s ‘internal side of perception’. The Asclepieion isn’t just an archeological site; it’s a healing entity, a space where medical practice, spirituality, physical exercise, ritual, theatre, nutrition, music, and community used to come together in one common and strictly individual experience: the deep mystery of healing.
In such a ‘performance of the Narrative’, the healers lead the audience to a visit towards the Past’s silent presence; they attempt to physically connect to the natural space, to the very world that inspired this inherent narrative in the first place.
Narrative Archeology is presented throughout July in the Asclepieion of the Epidaurus – an archeological site disproportionally unknown, despite the many cultural events that take place at the Ancient Theatre.
The co-shaping of the performance requires the participation of artists from the space of visual arts (performers, actors, musicians), as well as scientists (archeologists, historians) accompanied by inhabitants of the region.
Duration 90΄
Ancient Stadium Of Epidaurus
- 04/07/2026 at 10:30
- 04/07/2026 at 18:30
- 05/07/2026 at 10:30
- 11/07/2026 at 10:30
- 11/07/2026 at 18:30
- 12/07/2026 at 10:30
- 18/07/2026 at 10:30
- 18/07/2026 at 18:30
- 19/07/2026 at 10:30
- 25/07/2026 at 10:30
- 25/07/2026 at 18:30
- 26/07/2026 at 10:30
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