Apergi and her team researched the meaning and ways of mourning, as expressed by the chorus in  ancient Greek tragedy in order to develop the specific choreography and achieve a transfer of the  mournful dance-performance / state / representation to the contemporary reality of citizens being  confronted with fear and defeat. Mourning together is in fact a radical confrontation of the  phenomenon of loss. By occupying the space of loss we master the art of consolation and gain the  wisdom of collective recovery and change. Titled Polittes, with a twisted spelling that playfully alludes to ‘citizens defeated’, Apergi’s work  has been inspired by the thought of contemporary writers and historians (such as Edouard Said,  Dimitris Dimitriadis, Edouard Glissant, Kostis Karpozilos) and wishes to address the profound  changes that have occurred in social and political living, the violation of rights of citizenship under  the stress of the refugee crisis, and the rise of conservative and anti-minority politics. The various lessons inherited through Greek myth and drama are being reconfigured through  contemporary political poetics; the kind that wishes to recognize the needs and woes of emerging  societies, where class systems are dislocated, gender-based identities shift, and singularities budge  under heavy psychological and body strains. In those, yet-to-be-identified, societies, world citizens hear the last sounds of things familiar and  learn how to accept the organic, fertilizing presence of chaos. They are confronted with an urgent  demand: to invent new sounds, new images and other languages in order to describe the reality that  is coming.