The Other House

Onassis Cultural Centre 2016 // 51st Dimitria 2016

What place does fantasy have in the real world? How can it shape personal and public space? What is home? Can a person with a disability freely shape the environment in which they live? Does the welfare system have the capacity to serve individual need and desire? And who can answer the parent's nagging and persistent question, "What will happen to my child when I am gone?"

The group En Dynami explores the concept of space as a reflection of the identity of the individual. The "Other" House is the result of months of research, conducted both through targeted workshops, questionnaires and improvisations, and through interviews with people who find themselves in the difficult social condition of living unintentionally outside the family structure and protection (nursing homes, asylums, orphanages, boarding schools). In the performance, society, the "big house" of all of us, intersects with the "other" house, the one that society provides for the weaker social groups, but also with the dreams, hopes, fears and expectations of the persons-members of the group. Different aspects of an unseen reality come to light, with the aim of bridging the distance that separates us from this Other neighbour.