Mouth

The Archaeological Museum of Chalkis, “Arethousa”, hosts the performance Mouth, on 12 and 13 August 2026, as part of All of Greece, One Culture 2026.

Mouth is a hybrid dance opera that places the spectator in a transitional world. The mouth as opening, passage, scream and song: a threshold where language dissolves and communication before language emerges. Meaning arises through breath, vibration, rhythm, and movement. Like the mouth of a river merging with the sea, it becomes a site of passage and transformation. Inspired by the existential landscape of Samuel Beckett’s The End, the work is built through a condition of rupture: a human in dissolution, suspended between memory and decay, body and mind, individual and collective. MOUTH weaves a parallel reality within this crack, where whispers and breaths open alternative modes of existence. It imagines a humanity exhausted by isolation and anthropocentric thinking, searching for new ways of being. Four performers with and without disability from the En Dynamei ensemble construct a modular narrative through dance and music made of human voices and cello. Mouth unfolds as a practice of coexistence with rupture: a collective, ritual, and playful experience where fragmentation does not disappear but transforms into rhythm.

Source: Official Website – All of Greece, One Culture

Ticket Details

• The performance begins at 19:30 and lasts 50 minutes 
• The event is offered free of charge by the Ministry of Culture
• Advance reservation is required
• Only the entrance fee to the archaeological site (€10) is payable

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**Please refer to the official website and/or the festival organisers for possible changes in times and dates.**