Choreography YORGOS PAPADOPOULOS
Music APOSTOLIS KOUTSOYANNIS
Dancer YORGOS PAPADOPOULOS
Costume coordination YORGOS MESIMERIS
The butterfly and its constant changes and metamorphoses are a wonderful and miraculous teaching for all of us, which gives us inner power. Through its effort to break out of the cocoon, the butterfly reminds us that challenges in life are a necessary condition for the course of our evolution. It carries inside it a centuries-long wisdom and if you are able and willing to listen to it, you will feel you can trust the universe. You will understand that life and death are just a transition and that the soul is never altered. The only thing that is altered is its manifestation through matter.
Yorgos Papadopoulos
Choreography KONSTANTINOS RIGOS
Music GIORGOS KOUMENTAKIS
Dancers DANILO ZECA / VANGELIS BIKOS
Saxophone GUIDO DE FLAVIIS
Choreographer Assistant FOTIS DIAMANTOPOULOS
An archetypical, manly, solid body, trapped in restoration rafters, breathes all over again. It is brought to life through the air released by a wind instrument creating the melody of its breath as well as of its final release from limitation. A visual mobile trajectory where the body creates architectural gestures engaging in conversation with the “static” statues on the site. Inspired by the lockdown period and the silence of the city.
Konstantinos Rigos
Choreography PERSA STAMATOPOULOU
Music APOSTOLIS KOUTSOYANNIS
Dancers STELIOS KATOPODIS, THANASSIS SOLOMOS
Choreographer Assistant IRINA AKRIOTI-KOLIOUBAKINA
Costume coordination YORGOS MESIMERIS
It is a choreographic study on two bodies that coexist bringing out their differences and contrasts. Through an unadorned and abstract aesthetic approach, a microcosm of shifts in space and time emerges, with bodies hovering like comets in the universe and conversing collectively or as autonomous units.
Persa Stamatopoulou
Choreography MICHALIS THEOFANOUS
Dancer ARIEH BATES-VINOUEZA (ÁNGEL MARTINEZ SANCHEZ)
Choreographer Assistant FOTIS DIAMANTOPOULOS
Costume coordination YORGOS MESIMERIS
HARPY is a meditation in form of dance about modernity and classic, combining fashion, and the visual arts to propose a game to an inside-out world of that character. A dance performance that inhabits a highly visual environment and approached as a still image that gets alive, followed by the methodology “look and feel” as a project. Influenced in an abstract way by the interesting mythical creatures Harpies, the body transforms itself through different forms: ephemeral shapes that change endlessly as an evolving subject. A body that skips from lyrical and airy into stiff awkward to observe moves; like the “creature” which sometimes is described as being very beautiful, and sometimes as an ugly creature with a warped body.
Michalis Theophanous
Choreography LENIO KAKLEA
Dancers ZOI SCHINOPLOKAKI, YANNIS GANTSIOS
Choreographer Assistant DIMITRA LAOUDI
If the modernist era, driven by the ideology of progress, wished to explore the unlimited possibilities of humans and nature, the succession of social and ecological crisis finds us constrained in regard to such ambitions. And, if classical dance repertory with its narratives, elaborated stereotypical racial and gendered characters, to which for two centuries dancers had to fit, this new decade finds us in the obligation to propose alternatives for our identities in motion.
In line with these critical thoughts, my choreography of the 7-9 minutes, 4x4m commission will be an exploration of the modernist and urban environment in which the dance will be situated. I will play with both the architectural elements of the SNFCC terrace as well as with how natural elements such as sun light, the sky’s movements and colours make appear or disappear the dancers’ figures. This short dance will also play with how steps and jumps (human, choreographed or animal like) organise the movements of the dancers in space, in relation to each other and with the audience.
Lenio Kaklea
Choreography ELENA KEKKOU
Music, live performance ANTONIS VLAHOS
Dancer ELENA KEKKOU
Assistant Choreographer DIMITRA VLAHOU
Every existence is unique. Human existence is an endless line that, as it moves forward, intersects with other lines creating an interaction. It begins alone and ends alone. The essence, however, is in the intermediate state. Movement contains a code that unlocks the essence of existence and demarcates it. The choice of the position is what defines the path.
Elena Kekkou
Choreography YANNIS NIKOLAIDIS
Sound design MANOLIS MANOUSAKIS
Dancer MARGARITA KOSTOGLOU (ELEFTHERIA STAMOU)
Costumes IOANNA TSAMI
I often feel that the exhibits in the museums I visit are war captives. Just like the wild animals in the zoos. Objects and creatures forever trapped, violently removed from their natural environment and separated from the reason of their existence. Often, their enemy is the ruthless time rendering them museum exhibits, or just human greediness. Often, those less fortunate than us have this experience, trapped in ruined bodies that fail to fulfill the desires of their spirit. Doomed to complete the rest of their life inside them. Wonderful knights in painfully rigid armours.
Yannis Nikolaidis
Choreography CECILIA BENGOLEA
Music STITCHES, “Brick in Yo Face”
Dancers EMILIA GASPARI (MANIA KARAVASILI), MARITA NIKOLITSA/ARETI NOTI
Choreographer Assistants DIMITRA LAOUDI, VALERIA LANZARA
bodies. ever. stitches (2021) is a duet choreographed by Cecilia Bengolea as a new approach to the solo Erika Stitches of 2017. At the invitation of the Greek National Opera, Bengolea revisits the piece originally conceived for the Japanese ballerina Erika Miyauchi and Dia Art Foundation, and creates a work to be performed by two Greek ballerinas at the open terrace of the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens (EMST). Engaging with the diverse languages of ballet and dance hall, Bengolea’s work, in this revisited form, triggers an extended, non-hierarchical dialogue between different bodies as they meet the critical specificity of space, sound, translation, circumstance.
Choreography MARKELLA MANOLIADIS
Music GABRIEL FAURÉ, “Après un rêve”
Dancer ARIADNI FILIPPAKI
Singer ARTEMIS BOGRIS
Assistant Choreographer DIMITRA LAOUDI
Phantasmagoria usually refers to an exceptionally beautiful and impressive spectacle, yet in its core one finds two quite different notions: the spectre and allegory. A spectre, thus, persistently returns to the stage, goes through the entire history of theatre wanting to convey to us something from the “mythical suffering” in civilisation. A Promethean voice from the beyond, a vision-like projection of the craftsman-artist, the spectre as a “non-being” speaks about everything that has been forgotten, everything that is impressively present only in the ephemeral touch of art.