While Renzo Piano's Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens (SNFCC) is still under construction, it didn't keep the first performance from being staged last Wednesday on the site. Based on Renzo Piano's own idea, the Greek National Orchestra scored a 15-minute "dance" performance of ten giant cranes on the construction site, conducted by Artistic Director of the Greek National Opera, Myron Michailidis.
The cranes' dance was choreographed by Renato Zanella, to music from Gustav Holst's The Planets -- all with the Pantheon in the background.
The SNFCC is scheduled to open in 2016, and will include the new home for the Greek National Opera, the National Library of Greece, and a 42-acre public park.
You can watch the entire performance below (begins at 10:00):
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This is both ridiculous and delightful!
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