I am tired, as if I too belonged to the family of statues and were just as old.

Yannis Ritsos

Offered by Studio Azzurro and Moni Ovadia for the first time in 1990, DELPHI, a cantata stages Yannis Ritsos’ short poem Delphi featuring an original score by di Piero Milesi.

This work was an opportunity for new experiments. Moni Ovadia’s performance begins in the garden of the theatre, accompanying the spectators to the internal terraces. After the lights have faded, the dancers slowly and carefully retrace the construction of the perfect proportions of classical sculpture. Their struggle to achieve this ideal generates a concrete sound, which comes closer and closer to the human voice until it introduces the speech of the old man, a tour guide tired of the constant “showing things without people seeing them”. Moni Ovadia gives voice to this man’s surprisingly contemporary words as he watches the tourists carelessly glide through the unheard ruins of European and Mediterranean history.