Reverse Accessibility: Ballet - “Swan Lake” at the Greek National Opera
- ATLAS E.P.
- 5 days ago
- 3 min read
March 27th and 28th at 19:30
Stavros Niarchos Hall at the Greek National Opera - SNFCC
(Copyright disclaimer at the end of the post.)
ATLAS E.P. invites you to the accessible version of “Swan Lake”, the word-class ballet accompanied by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s one of a kind music, and choreographed by Konstantinos Rigos with references to the choreographies of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov.
This time, we invite you to an innovative accessible experience, during which reverse accessibility services are going to be offered for the first time ever globally, based on the post-doctoral research study of ATLAS. E.P. CEO, Dr Emmanouela Patiniotaki. The study is funded by the Italian Government and is carried out at the Università degli studi di Bergamo. The services, offered exclusively for this ballet and the Greek National Opera, are to be assessed by the target audience as well as by researchers and academics in Greece and abroad. The sole aim of the services is to highlight informational structures able to make different versions of art interesting and accessible to as big an audience as possible.
“With these new accessibility services, the goal is to eliminate boundaries regarding accessibility opportunities. Accessibility is art and science. These two together can make possible what seems impossible”. E. Patiniotaki
More specifically, on March 27th, the performance is going to be accompanied by experimental forms of narratively enriched Surtitling in Greek and English, as well as live Audio Description in Greek and English. On March 28th, the audience will be able to watch the performance with enriched Surtitling in both languages and Audio Description in Greek.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE BALLET
Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake has long enthralled and moved audiences, while also posing a challenge for dancers, as the virtuosic skills and lyricism required for a complete interpretation of this work often seem to transcend human limits. At the same time, it is also a musical work of immense performative demands.
Konstantinos Rigos revisits Tchaikovsky’s classic masterpiece, raising new questions about how major works of the classical ballet repertoire can be reinterpreted today. Petipa and Ivanov’s original choreography dominates the lake’s landscape, like a ritual repeated in a timeless setting. By creating a choreographic palimpsest, the dancers alternate between the classical style and other choreographic forms, ranging from neoclassical to modern dance.
Stamping his mark on the choreography, stage direction, and sets, Konstantinos Rigos explores some of our era’s fears and obsessive images to immerse himself in his own lake. A landscape in a post-destruction era. A lake where the natural and the supernatural co-exist and alternate.
You can find more information about the performance by visiting GNO website: https://www.nationalopera.gr/en/stavros-niarchos-hall/sn-ballet/item/7433-swan-lake
ACCESSIBILITY SERVICES RESERVATION
To reserve seats with accessibility services, you can contact ATLAS E.P. at askatlasep@gmail.com or +30 6993507553 (text and video call).
OUR PEOPLE ON ACCESSIBILITY
Research, Audio Description for equal access, Music Surtitling, Reverse Accessibility, curation of services and accessibility production management: Emmanouela Patiniotaki
Audio Description Voicing in Greek 27/03: Nicole Kounenidaki
Audio Description Voicing in English 27/03 and in Greek 28/03: Emmanouela Patiniotaki
Surtitling for equal access: Ilias Katsigiannis
COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER: ATLAS E.P.’s services and Dr Emmanouela Patiniotaki’s research are protected by copyrights. Mentioning of the reverse accessibility services is legally protected and any republication in a professional, academic, or other environment is prohibited without clear stating of the creator and copyright holder, the research and the university.
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