ecHoos

ecHoos 

Dimitris Baltas

Dance
Syros, Greece

Date: Saturday 19 September 2026

Time: 19:30

Venue: Frourio Hill

Free entrance

An environment. A structure. And a person who inhabits it. A place that is both familiar and strangely unfamiliar. It does not take long for the person to realize that they no longer belong to the place they once called their own. In an effort to understand and redefine themselves, they attempt to become part of this new environment, constantly measuring their values and testing their limits. Through an unceasing shift of positions and pathways, they begin to wonder: how much will they have to change in order to fit into this new place? And, in turn, whether—and to what extent—the place itself will have been transformed by their passage.

ecHoos explores the relationship between the contemporary individual and the society they inhabit. It asks whether we truly feel that we belong to the social, political, or cultural context into which we happen to be born, or whether our entire journey is, in essence, a continuous struggle to adapt. As we repeatedly reposition our bodies within the structures that surround us, our history—both personal and collective—can serve either as a source of strength or as an obstacle. In the end, is it only the individual who is transformed by this process, or does the place itself change as well?

Concept | Choreography | Stage Composition: Dimitris Baltas
Performance: Dimitris Lagos

Acknowledgements: Special thanks to Gkintiki for granting permission to use Skaros (traditional folk song from Epirus; arranged by Gkintiki; from the album Ahoy).