the Greek words to describe the different ways of love*

porneia:	is love of a child for its mother, love that is nourished by the other. Vital need, consuming love. To make of the other an object. Love that fills a void. There's always a child inside us.
pothos:	is love as a lack, the need to be loved, recognised.
eros:	is the winged god (winged passion, phallus with wings). Desire for the beautiful, the good, dependence and consummation. It awakens aspiration towards beauty. To rediscover by experiencing the sacred.
philia:	is love for friends, emergence of the other person as a subject. Phylia has four layers:
philia physike:	is love for family (blood and flesh), recognising the child as an extension of oneself.
philia erotike:	is physical attraction, without the act itself. Two souls attracted to each other. Presence that awakens us, that makes us grow.
philia hetarike:	is love for a friend, listening to the other, his difference, his problems. Love as exchange.
philia xenike:	is love for the stranger, hospitality, loving difference, emergence of alterity.
mania:	is passion, dependence, jealousy, possession, exclusivity. Captive love (I want you to myself).
storge:	is tenderness. The heart that is present, heart on the palm, it gives itself expecting less in return.
harmonia:	is love in silence, harmony in breaths, to be on the same wavelength, simple, a togetherness on a mystical level, not dependent (we meet as though we had only separated yesterday).
charis:	is love celebrating, praise, joy given freely, offered. The thanks to the gods. Gratuitous, beauty that gives itself.
agape:	is absolute love, love of God, the source. Love that springs from the source, that gives itself. A birth of a love that is ready to renounce itself. Love that makes love grow in the other. The fullness of love, plenitude.
eunoia:	is goodwill, love without expectation of return, devotion, compassion, without the desire to be desired. Spiritual level of love.

*excerpt taken from the in-i performance booklet