Nefeli Asteriou, Nodas Damopoulos, Danae Dimitriade, Giorgos Nikopoulos, Yorgos Maraziotis, Dimitris Mytilinaios, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, Martha Pasakopoulou and Andi Tzouma participate in the Athens Epidauros Festival.
Andi Tzouma is the choreographer of the performance Oikodomi (Construction Site). Giorgos Nikopoulos joins as a musician. The universe of Oikodomi (Construction Site) encompasses notions and symbols derived from two very different yet parallel worlds: rebetiko and hip-hop culture. Combining aspects of rebetiko music and history with kinesiology and hip-hop technique, this performance aims to create a space within which music, rhythm, and narratives merge together, jointly composing a uniform language of communication. A language that can be easily understood by everybody everywhere: this is the goal. Through the performance of four dancers and two musicians, Oikodomi (Construction Site) addresses human relationships and power relations, communication and isolation, life and death.
Danai Dimitriadi choreographs together with Dionisio Alamano the dance performance Free At Last: Rerooted με τον Διονύσιο Αλαμάνο. Mystical imagery and dark atmosphere. Greek tradition is deconstructed and linked with the present, as the legendary Dance of Zalongos inspires an original choreography. Two young, internationally acclaimed choreographers, Danae Dimitriadi and Dionysios Alamanos, carry the emotionally charged dance on the edge of the cliff to the stage, featuring original music and choreography inspired by traditional dances, Greek and foreign alike. A performance that vividly brings to life the creatures of the natural world. Free At Last premiered in June 2019, produced by Theater Rotterdam, with the support of Stichting Droom en Daad, RIDCC and Big Story Productions. The Free At Last: Rerooted version will be presented for the first time at the Athens Festival 2021.
Ioanna Paraskevopoulou participates in the performance ANNNA³. The Worlds of Infinite Shifts in choreography of Alexandra Waierstall. The female body is transformed through an electrifying, emotional and existential dance trio. Three exceptionally skilful dancers cross the space around them full of both uncertainty and courage, celebrating the freedom of physical expression. They appear and disappear, hold tight and let go. Born in Britain and raised in Cyprus, acclaimed choreographer Alexandra Waierstall reimagines female bodies as sites of reflection, connectedness, and resistance, in collaboration with famous composer and pianist Hauschka and French lighting designer Caty Olive.
Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, Martha Pasakopoulou and Nefeli Asteriou (performance – video creation and editing) and Yorgos Maraziotis (space design) join the performance of Iris Karagian, A Dance as a Dance. How do we experience dancing as a practice of becoming? What happens to our senses when we dance and how are they transformed? Can the practice of dancing be connected to a need of redefining our existence and a desire for transcendence? These are some of the questions posed by choreographer Iris Karayan in her new production entitled A dance as a dance. Working with archival material that studies the movement vocabulary and dances of different cultures, Karayan explores the body, its pulses and breaths, creating a performance that focuses on dancing and liveness as a condition of being in the world.
Dimitris Mytilinaios is assistant of choreographer, as well as performer at the show of Lenio Kaklea Age of Crime. Paris-based choreographer Lenio Kaklea has been commissioned by the Athens Festival to create Age of Crime, on the occasion of the Greek War of Independence bicentennial. The artist encourages us to observe the official narratives that shaped national memory. The artist draws on vampire figures in order to comment on how customs and rituals build a kind of imaginary community. Based on first-person Ottoman narratives of the Greek War of Independence, she reveals how a nation seemingly cleansed from the influences of the Ottoman occupation is, in fact, fraught with tension.
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