When I first heard about Ancient Greek dance it was the year 2005 and I had just moved from Lisbon to Athens. A German artist, who had studied Ancient Greek Dance in an English school in South Africa was the only teacher I could find. And I was her only student.

 

She spoke to me about “the inner theme in dance”, about Eros and Ecstasy. She told me about the living mythology and about an honest embodiement of the ancient greek spirit. 

Since 2005 I have been to Greece every year, many times. I became an ancient greek dance researcher at the Dora Stratou Theatre in Athens and for a while I joined the inspiring Ancient Orchesis Research Group by Anna Lazou, an artist and professor of philosophy at the Kapodistrian University in Athens.

 

Considered a “lost art”, Ancient Greek Dance is one of the most intriguing subjects a dancer can delve into: it combines theatre, philosophy, literature,  sculpture and imagination - an art that we should never loose.

 

Although Ancient Greek Dance can not be seen anywhere, the truth is that everywhere I look I find words, images and places that inspire me to dance.  

 

This visual diary is a never-ending collection of short narratives, pictures, episodes and experiences that I relate to the spirit of dance in ancient times. 

We are left with the dots of a great civilization. 
I collect and connect them, drawing lines that lead to labyrinths that create paths that become scribbles that seem like drawings that form new words that become movement...