'Europium' makes world premiere on Oct 29 in Athens

"A couple of years ago when we started preparing this performance, we were very interested in the history and mythology relating to the name of Europe. Believing in the strong correlation between a word and the reality which it describes, we presumed that semantic and etymological studies on the word ‘Europe’ could provide us with precious information about Europe’s founding myths and identity and raise questions about the idea of a European community now and what it might mean for our generation," the directors of the performance Linda Kapetanea & Jozef Fruček said.

"Then, about a year ago, we discovered the title of the performance: ‘Europium’, the chemical element EU63 which was named after Europe. Europium is an element that plays no significant biological role; an element that was found to be unstable and to easily decay; an element whose ion-exchange is called the ‘negative europium anomaly’," they added.