Elena Topalidou - Appalachian Spring: Homage to Martha Graham.

Thirteen musicians of the Greek National Opera Orchestra perform one of the most famous works of American composer Aaron Copland, in the big Orchestra Rehearsal Hall at the SNFCC, keeping a two-meter distance from each other, while the heart-breaking solo of prominent Greek dance figure Elena Topalidou in an Athenian forest is a small tribute to Martha Graham, thanks to whom Copland’s leading work was created. Seventy-six years after its premiere in New York, Appalachian Spring still keeps signalling music’s great simplicity and immediacy, and contemporary’s dance timeless power.