
OPEN LIGHT
Open Light is a performative experiment drawing elements from site specific performance, street art and light installation.
Short stories of light and darkness in the form of small fragments pop up as memories, philosophical statements, soundscapes. From the stars in the night sky, to department stores, billboards, red lights’ districts, to personal visions of spirituality when saying goodbye to our lovedones, this performance wants to create a journey through nature, life organized in cities and into the human eternal soul.
Born out of the need to address the global and communal experience of the pandemic and the need to reinterpret the ideas of compassion, trust and solidarity in times when online communication and walking alone in the streets of any city in the world were the only ways to come into contact with other people.
Our aim is for the audience – solitary passersby or theater goers – to take with them as they resume their way after watching the show, a refreshed and more humane experience of public space and a new kind of empathy for times and emotions that we have never experienced before.

Staff:
Created by Youla Boudali & Christina Thanasoula
Music: Devika
Text – Performance: Youla Boudali
Lighting Designer: Christina Thanasoula
Assistant Lighting Designer & Photos: Marietta Pavlaki
Voice Recording Production: ELIOT / Amour Records
Graphic Designer: Maria Giarmeniti
Video: Vangelis Lainas
Prosorinos Theater | Athens
A Diaspora Production with the participation of the Ministry of Culture and Sports
June 2021


Staff:
Created by Youla Boudali & Christina Thanasoula
Music: Devika
Text – Performance: Youla Boudali
Lighting Designer: Christina Thanasoula
Assistant Lighting Designer & Photos: Marietta Pavlaki
Voice Recording Production: ELIOT / Amour Records
Graphic Designer: Maria Giarmeniti
Video: Vangelis Lainas
Prosorinos Theater | Athens
A Diaspora Production with the participation of the Ministry of Culture and Sports
June 2021

AMERICAN ART SCHOOL
STUDENTS’ REVIEWS
It felt like a Pink Floyd album; the music gave it unity and it was slowly taking you on a trip from beginning to end, you could not break apart the images, they were all part of one score. It was a very trippy experience, and I didn’t mind at all not getting the language, I didn’t feel I was missing a piece.
Ali
For me it was all about dimensions: from 1 to 2 to 3 dimensional space; the bubble wrap gave the impression of pixels on the window and they made the whole experience 2 dimensional. The light tubes were one dimensional. When she was dancing behind the glass you could see 2 x 2D images one on top of the other: her figure behind the glass (pixelated) and on top of it her shadow projected on the glass. When the door opened and we saw the real 3 dimensional space it was like I suddenly realized the depth that I was missing, and it became very very personal.
Eva
I loved the end scene in her room, I could relate to it 100%. It was like seeing me in the lockdown. She was too far to see her facial features and that somehow made it more relatable to me, she could be anyone, she could be me.
Ariadni
For me it was the forest scene; how the green light was reflected through the bubble wrap, I could see the image of standing at the foot of a huge forest looking up at the play of the leaves with the sunlight – it just really created that image for me. I think I understood how abstraction works. You don’t need all of it, you might just make meaning with one thing! (e.g. the green light=forest)
Iris
The pieces of text sounded very different to one another but really it was like one poem, I think the whole thing was closing in on her, it was a process of becoming more personal; starting from talking about irrelevant things like the world map or the forests and ending up with her father’s death. I loved the piece of text with his soul flying out the window, it gave me the chills.
Eva