CRACKS

A solo dance-theatre work by Christina Kyriazidi & Smári Gudmundson

A woman on stage, unraveling. Her voice, her body, her memory—fractured.

From these cracks, other women emerge: a refugee adrift in foreign lands,

Antigone walking toward her tomb, Medea haunted by her own hands, Phaedra

trembling with forbidden desire, and the aching solitude of Cocteau’s Human

Voice. Each fragment is a pulse in the collective memory of womanhood—a

shifting constellation of love, power, and death.

CRACKS is a visceral composition of movement, language, and sound—a solo

performance that blurs the boundaries between the personal and the

archetypal. The performer shifts between identities and tongues (Greek,

Spanish, French, German), her voice splintering into poetry, song, cry, and

silence. Narrative breaks down. Stories echo, overlap, dissolve.

This is not one woman’s tale—it is all of them. A body inhabited by countless

voices. A plunge into the subconscious where memory and myth collide. Where

madness dances with lucidity. Where what is broken reveals what has always

been burning underneath.

Featuring original poetry by Christina Kyriazidi and music by Smári

Gudmundson, CRACKS is a haunting, multilingual journey through the light

and darkness of the female soul.

CRACKS made its world premiere in New York City in Autumn 2024, with

performances at Theaterlab and The Tank—venues known for championing

emerging and experimental artists. The production launched its European tour in

Athens in November 2024, followed by additional presentations in Athens, Berlin,

and Krakow in 2025.

Poetry / Direction / Performance: Christina Kyriazidi

Music: Smári Gudmundsson

Costume design: Eleni Nomidi

Light design: Maria Athanasopoulou

Production: OUR STORIES

Duration: 47’

Trailer: https://youtu.be/9WefXyf1syQ

Language: Greek with English subtitles

Christina Kyriazidi is a Greek theatre maker, poet, musician, and award-winning

playwright and screenwriter, based between Berlin and Athens. She studied acting

and playwriting in Greece and the UK (University of Exeter), and has worked

internationally as a performer, director, and dramaturge across Europe, South America,

and the USA.

Her collaborations include work with internationally renowned theatre groups such as

Odin Teatret. She has created 17 solo performances that have toured festivals,

theatres, and galleries in Greece, Germany, France, Italy, Argentina, Brazil, and New

York City — including appearances at Festival d'Avignon OFF, Magdalena Theatre

Festival, and United Solo Festival.

Christina’s plays have received awards and been staged in Greece, Germany, Brazil,

and Spain, with honors including the Hellenic Union of Writers Award (2002), Brazil’s

Ministry of Culture Prize – FUNARTE (2015), and selection by the PIIGS Festival in

Barcelona (2016). Her work has also featured at the Festival du Théâtre Francophone

de Berlin and the 3rd International Epidaurus Film Festival.

In 2024, her solo performance OBLIVION was awarded Best International Show at the

United Solo Festival in New York — the largest solo performance festival in the world.

As a poet, her work has been published in Greece, and as a cultural innovator, she is

the founder of several international initiatives, including STORY FOR FOOD, a story-

collection platform in Berlin, and the International Storytelling & Performing Arts

Festival "We Love Stories" in Chania, Crete.

More information: http://christinakyriazidi.com/

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