The Garden Project

Spyridon Paterakis together with Adam Read and Barbara Pradzinska 2009 create The Garden Project........and make an international tour every year.

THE GARDEN

"The Garden" explores the ideals of paradise!! Through the exploration of time, from the past to the present, The Garden is an interactive performance that asks the question to the public, What is Paradise? We use this phrase to maintain an imaginitive realm so as to leave the reality of this world!! We record the publics voice and and repeat them during the performance, in different languages and texts. Bringing a universal appeal to the ideal of Paradise.

The Garden is a clown, physical, visual and object performance, interacting with the public, working on and for the location, using the specific possibilities and qualities of each space. The performance is aware and taking advantage of the nature in the location like: sand, water, trees, sunset etc. Using the lights and music is creating the other dimension of the daily watched location.

3 clowns:( 2 children and their servant) are appearing on the street, messing around, playing with the passers by, making people laugh from their existance. They appear from another reality and so it is! They are passing by the city on the way to their destination.

From the middle of the noisy crowd they are discovering the garden – beautiful space with the white trees and the water...

Curious, they enter the location and things starts to happen.

The Garden is full of the stories that awake imaginations and takes them into journies through diffrent stages... They become like children discovering the world, beings entering the new land full of the mistery of the unknown...

The trees begin to speak to them and go on fire, the sun appears to rise, the mistery invites them with clouds of smoke to go down...

When the curtain closes and the performers bow it all appears to be a show of 3 clowns...

performers direction and realisation

Basia Pradzynska (Poland)

Spiros Peterakis (Greece)

Adam Read (Australia)

Info: www.thegardenproject.eu

www.infothegarden.blogspot.com

email: info@thegardenproject.eu