Electra

Măniuţiu's Electra is a performance of the eternal, yet all present tragic, always willing to take the shape of the day, but preserving its perpetually essence, the inexorable destiny. The meeting between these two great texts of Greek tragedy – the founding texts of the great European cultural myths – and the traditional music performed live by the group from Maramureş (Northern region of Romania) brings this extraordinary mythology into the present, causing the birth of a space of archaic confluences.

Electra and Orestes are the tool of destiny incarnated by the closed community (Electra is the axe, which the courtiers painted in blood on her back) and its members ensure it’s fulfilment.

It’s the sign of the tragic descending from the palace to the edge of the world, the sign of the tragic conserving itself from the hard core of social life. It's a ghetto in the world today who has invented for itself ancestral operating mechanisms, reconstructed by Măniuţiu with mirror-clarity in which reverberate the instruments and voices of the Iza group.