The Onassis Cultural Centre presents a captivating performance titled “Azimut” for the first time in Greece. The innovative show, directed by Aurélien Bory, one of France’s most authentic artists, will run from December 28, 2014 to December 30, 2014 and it has been characterized by Le Monde as “beautiful, soft and mysterious, a performance that leaves you speechless”.

In Morocco, they say Sidi Ahmed Ou Moussa, a great Sufi teacher who lived in the 16th century, found the spiritual path to heaven one day. But looking down at the Earth from on high, he decided he wanted to go back. This legend, which symbolizes the acrobatic arc, lies at the very heart of Azimut, a work which tackles return, gravity and the search for our spiritual path.

What does it mean to be an acrobat in Morocco today, in an ever-changing political and social context? Which road should we choose? It is questions like these that fuel this production directed by Aurélien Bory, in this, his Greek premiere. Between Earth and Sky, the acrobat is sometimes an observer, sometimes a heavenly body. Gravity and its defiance -flight, man’s age-old desire to take to the air- is transformed into a game which involves legendary acrobats, theatrical machines, images awash with poetry and magic, spiritual allusions to Sufism, scenes of contemporary Morocco and a 16th-century legend, and transports us far, far away, up into the heavens. Aurélien Bory is an artist whose paints are the stage…