“a fresco on time, the Tamer, who with the irony of a circus master, inspires a disinterred humanity into the plasticity of the folds of muscles and bones. Jordi Sora i Domenjó, escena de la memoria, 5 July 2017 “The Great Tamer is a parable of the distortion of everyday movements, and a discreet lesson on its meaning.”
Mariana Shimadina, Teatr., 18 December 2017 “Body is given to me - what do I do with it…” And Papaioannou's performance once again brilliantly proved it." But they knew for sure that only one thing is capable of conquering time and death - Art.
And although the leitmotif of the performance is the waltz from ‘ On the Beautiful Blue Danube’, Strauss's music sounds like a reminder of a bygone life.īy the way, for ancient Greeks the 'great tamer' was a way to call Time, the one that puts a limit to any earthly claims. "The mood and atmosphere of Papaioannou's piece is saturated with black melancholy, beautiful and attractive in its own way.
The fascinating cycle of a strange ritual. "Tamer’s success comes natural – very few stage artists of today are able in such an organic manner to combine visual appeal and aestheticism, intellect and entertainment, tricks and philosophy, living human body and dead scenography, intriguing monstrosity and bewitching beauty, crude physiology and high imagery - all in one performance" Victor Vilisov, LENTA.RU, 16 December 2017 Everything is done consciously and with intention" The pace of the performance is extremely slow, the density of events is small, some etudes are repeated multiple times, but this is exactly how Papaioannou works with time. "The Great Tamer is a set of breathtakingly inventive live paintings. "every naked man on stage has a physique perfect as a flawless sculpture, noble and restrained, unexaggerated."Īn amazing deeply artistic and thoughtful work No matter how overturning the movements are on stage, how vividly the creativity, in the end, all must bow to gravity" Throughout the entire performance, every movement on stage is resistance, all creativity is rebellion, every opposition is against the Great Tamer that is absent the entire time.
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"Everything is breaking free of its original form, morphing into another, changes take place naturally the constant change is the only regular pattern that never changes. Gunilla Jensen, Svenska Dagbladet, 09 November 2017ĭiane Baker, TAIPEI TIMES, 23 November 2017Įxaggerated as cartoon, ridiculous as farce, and amusing as vaudeville, challenging and overturning the universal norm The laughter sticks in ones throat.One wants to see more of this Beckett of dance."
He uncovers the existential conditions of humanity with dark humor and ruthless acute perception. We are drawn into the spectacle, in the personal and deeply original artistry with all its symbolism and its challenging address. The suggestion and the imagery are so powerful, the oxygen is on the wane after 100 minutes. "Papaioannou demands a lot of his audience and there is complete concentration in the theatre. "The Great Tamer is a great evening’s theatre, and one that had the audience rapt from beginning to end"ĭavid Mead, SeeingDance, 20 November 2017 Örjan Abrahamsson, Dagens Nyheter, 10 November 2017 If it is true that good artists don’t steal, but borrow, Papaioannou must have a free pass at the world’s art library." Above all Papaioannou holds the audience in his hand in an equally contemplative as wonderfully unhinged performance with so many unforgettable scenes "Once again Dimitris Papaioannou shows that he is one of Europe’s most innovative stage artists with a sense of humour that Franz Kafka would have loved.
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