Adieu stage show bids farewell

Goodbyes are difficult. Romantic goodbyes at the end of a relationship are possibly the hardest of all and an upcoming January art event dives deep into them.

Adieu – An Act of Farewell is a performance about love and this process of separation, the end of a love story. After a December performance in Limassol, Fotis Nikolaou is bringing his choreography to Theatro Dentro in Nicosia to examine how we say goodbye.

How do we part from someone? How do we deal with this emptiness? “It starts at that very moment when we will hug for the last time and say goodbye,” say the organisers. “A hug that will bring back memories of moments of passion and love but at the same time will scratch open wounds and complaints. Without hope, tired but with the desire and strength to restart they will attempt a final frontal confrontation of truth and passion. They will look at each other again, they will touch again, they will talk again, they will get angry again, they will forgive again, they will cry again, they will hug and say goodbye.”

This is the moment, the performance describes, when you know it is over but you do not know either how it will be or how you will be coming out of it. Alone or more alone?

And so on January 8, Nikolaou and Katerina Tylliridou will take to the Theatro Dentro stage at 8.30pm to look at this peculiar, emotional process of saying goodbye to a person who once meant the world.

Adieu – An Act of Farewell

Choreography by Fotis Nikolaou. January 8. Theatro Dentro, Nicosia. 8.30pm. Tel: 99-023419