INTRODUCTION
On Bodies is one of the most significant dance and performance festivals in Cyprus, with various contemporary performance practices that use choreography and the body as a medium of artistic exploration. Through its 16 years of existence, it has given the opportunity to many creators and groups of the island to take their first artistic steps and present their work to a wide audience.
For 2024, the theme of the festival is HEALING: the process of treating a wound, the support in overcoming a trauma, the recovery to a pain-free mental or physical state. Dealing with trauma, and more specifically with collective trauma and its residues, is something that needs attention and understanding, especially in areas that have experienced conflict and aggression, such as Cyprus.
This year's programme includes proposals from young and established artists from Cyprus and abroad that will take place on the main stage, in the garden and outdoor space of Dance House Lefkosia, as well as in collaborating venues.
In the frame of the festival and in collaboration with EDN – European Dance Development Network and Dance Gate Lefkosia- Cyprus we will have the Atelier HEALING: Becoming Well Again with talks, discussions, workshops, curated walks and performative happenings.
16
TH OF ΜΑΥ 2024 THURSDAY, 17:00-22:00
THE STUDIO
BODY UNMUTED. 40’
LIA HARAKI (CY) - ATELIER
17
TH OF ΜΑΥ 2024 FRIDAY, 19:30
DANCE HOUSE LEFKOSIA AND NEIGHBORHOOD
CHILDHOOD LEFTOVERS. 22’
ELISAVET PANAGIOTOU (CY) - BODIES ON STAGE (W)HOLEMAN. 15’
APOLLO ANASTASIADES (CY) - BODIES ON STAGE 25KM. 27’
ELIANE ROUMIÉ (GR/SY) - BODIES IN THE GARDEN AND FILM
SHE WAS. 30’
PHYSICAL PLASTIC & ANEESHA (CY/US) - BODIES ON STAGE
RIA ALEXANDROU (CY) - BODIES IN THE GARDEN *
EPHEMERAL SYMBIOSIS PT.I:
FLUMEN PUBLICUM ONGOING
18
TH OF ΜΑΥ 2024 SATURDAY, 19:30
DANCE HOUSE LEFKOSIA
SILENT RESILIENCE. 20’
SOTIRIS SOTIRIOU (CY) - BODIES ON STAGE
ETERNALLY ALIVE - A2. 30’
STALI SYMEON (GR) - BODIES ON STAGE
ΥΠΝΟΒ ΑΤΗΣ. 20’
ELIAS KLARK & HANNAH BADURA (CY/PT) - BODIES ON STAGE
FSSSSSSSSSSSSS
BOOOMMMM!!!!!!. 25’
NEFELI KENTONI & MARIA PAPACHARALAMBOUS (CY) BODIES IN THE GARDEN
EPHEMERAL SYMBIOSIS PT.I: FLUMEN PUBLICUM ONGOING
RIA ALEXANDROU (CY) - BODIES IN THE GARDEN
PARTY
19
TH OF ΜΑΥ 2024 SUNDAY, 19:30
DANCE HOUSE LEFKOSIA
ΣΑΚΡΑ. 40’
ALEXIS VASSILIOU (CY) - BODIES ON STAGE
ÆFFECTIVE CHOREOGRAPHY. 90’
ANDRÉ UERBA/SHORT HOPE (PT/DE) - BODIES ON STAGE
EPHEMERAL SYMBIOSIS PT.I: FLUMEN PUBLICUM ONGOING RIA ALEXANDROU (CY) - BODIES IN THE GARDEN
Concept, Creation & Performance
Lia Haraki
Sound Design
Yiannis Christofides
Visual Design & Promotional Image
PASHIAS
Perfume for “recording number 6”
Chrysa Gregoriou (Floricienta Iuvenalis)
Produced & Organized by .pelma.Lia Haraki
Coproduced by NiMAC (The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, associated with the Pierides Foundation) with the support of the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture.
Premier Theatro Polis OPAP on July 5th 2019.
Σύλληψη,
PASHIAS
Παραγωγή & Οργάνωση .pelma.Lia Haraki Συμπαραγωγή
Body Unmuted
Lia Haraki
16+
ATELIER
An audible experience, including confessions made by the body that are not usually said and not commonly heard. Haraki made the recordings in real-time, meaning that the voice was recorded as a situation was actually happening. The body, therefore, is heard as it whispers, screams, laughs, moans, sings, cries, tells, confesses, reveals, and admits.
In Body Unmuted, the visitor enters a room one at a time, and listens to the recordings by placing their own body in particular positions indicated by the artist, aiming to stimulate feelings of empathy or identification.
Overall, Body Unmuted is a journey from the room’s periphery towards each visitor’s centre.
Το
Lia Haraki is a Cypriot interdisciplinary performance artist and moving poet whose work spans performance art, devised theatre, choreography, song, spoken word, and a form she terms "repetitive poetry." In her work, she usually works with the moving and sounding qualities of the human body and is occupied with themes related to identity, community, and value. Lia’s performances have been presented in European festivals like the Athens festival, Bozar Βrussels, Tanec Praha and other and were two times shortlisted at the Aerowaves EU network. Her practices are taught locally and internationally in places like Impuls Tanz Vienna and the University of Nicosia. Her solo ‘Tune In’ was presented at the Venice Biennale (Special mention for the Cyprus and Lithuanian Pavilion, 2014). Lia’s projec ‘The Performance Shop Concept’ was selected as one of 25 best dance practices in what makes dance relevant by EDN (2016). She was the initiator of Dance House Lemesos and is the head of its board.
Creation & Performance
Elisavet Panagiotou
Music
Vassilis Philippou
Photography
Areti Panagiotou
Acknowledgement
The creative process was supported by Moving the New Residency 2022 and by Open Up 2021 Performance Lab; mentored by Rodia Vomvolou and Lia Haraki respectively.
childhood leftovers 22’
Elisavet Panagiotou
Performance
BODIES ON STAGE
childhood leftovers is about an introspection that dives and floats in between childhood qualities and experiences. Through movement, text and drawing, the performer embarks on a journey tracing something forgotten. A journey of reconnecting with aspects of the Self which might have been buried, transformed in the passing of time or have simply been a product of imagination. A sharing between performer and audience which brings to the forefront the importance of curiosity and the beauty of experiencing the world with the simplicity of the body, our senses and emotions.
Elisavet Panagiotou is a dancer/performer with a contemporary dance background and a strong interest in improvisation. In the past, she has attended the intensive dance program Oficina Zero in Portugal which is directed by Mafalda Deville, as well as the OpenUp Performance Lab, curated by Lia Haraki. As a performer, she has collaborated with Annie Khoury, Arianna Economou, Viky Kalla, Maria Kamberis, Maria Kasapi and Zoe Georgallis. Alongside, in the recent years she has been focusing on the development of her creative practices through participating in residency programs and festivals in Cyprus. Currently, she is interested in improvisation practises that emphasise senses and emotions and in creative writing as part of her creative processes.
Choreographer/Performer
Apollo Anastasiades
Music Composer
Dario Willmington
Fine Artist
Joanna Tsaggari
(W)holeman
Apollo Anastasiades
Dario Willmington
BODIES ON STAGE
- Hey,(W)holeMan. How are you?
- (W)holeMan:…
- What's your purpose here? Is there anything I can do for you? Is there a problem?
- (W)holeMan:…
- I'm not able to do that. Is that really true?
- (W)holeMan…
- Why should I care too much? Will you be close to me? I do not want to miss you? What are your thoughts? Is this safe and stable?I thought it was better together? Can you feel this?
- (W)holeMan: You cannot do this alone... I thought everything was possible?
- (W)holeMan:…
- Can you please make me fear again, my friend?
- Γεια, (W)holeMan! Πώς είσαι;
- (W)holeMan:... -
- (W)holeMan:...
- (W)holeMan:…
(W)holeMan:...
Apollo Anastasiades was born and raised in Orounta, a small village near Nicosia. He started dancing at the age of 6 and learned traditional Greek and Cypriot dances, as well as Hip Hop, Latin, Ballroom, Ballet, Breakdance, and Contemporary dance. Meanwhile, he was playing drums and percussion and trained in Taekwondo which he completed the black belt 1Dan. He completed his studies at ArtEZ University of Arts in The Netherlands. Around 2020, Apollo focused on his interest in Martial Arts and started training in the art of Shaolin Kung Fu and specifically Bo Staff training. In 2022-23 as part of his internship he completed one season with the TanzKassel dance company in Germany and worked with S. Ostheimer, A. Foniadakis, Sh. Seggay and A. Lobo. In September 2023, Apollo was in the process and performance of Panos Malactos’ creation "Are you OKAY?" and also took part in Milena Urgen Koulas’ work "DEAD MOUSE" in the Cyprus Choreography Platform in Cyprus.
Hop, Latin, Ballroom,
Concept & Choreography
Eliane Roumié
Cast
Live Performance
Christiana Katsimpraki, Eliane Roumié, Marina Tsapekou
Film
Zoi Efstathiou, Nancy Nerantzi, Eliane Roumié, Lea Simonsmeier
Music & Sound Design
Manos Paterakis
Cinematography & Editing
Konstantinos Kalavrezos
Scenography
Stavros Balis
Photo by John Kouskoutis
25km
Eliane Roumié
BODIES IN THE GARDEN AND FILM
25km is a site-specific project of four women who follow in the steps of Ancient Greeks and walk in silence for 25 kilometers in search of new personal and collective meanings.
The project focuses on the immense experience provided by a long walking route and further explores ways in which such a ritual can be translated into dance. It is formed through an artistic documentary and a dance performance. The emotion of anticipation at the starting point, the ephemeral contact with nature, the need for body and soul catharsis, and the prolonged feeling of arrival, all represent aspects of the piece’s artistic research and form the basis for the composition of 25km’s collective ritual.
The project was realized in the framework of 2023 ELEVSIS –European Capital of Culture and Academy of Choreography U(R) TOPIAS. Supported by the Cultural and Development Non-profit Organization NEON through its Annual Grants Programme.
Live
Lea Simonsmeier
Eliane Roumié is a half Greek, half Syrian, artist born and raised in Athens. She graduated from Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL) (BSc) and Bath University (MSc) in Business Administration. She then studied contemporary dance techniques in Tanzfabrik (Berlin), DansCentrumJette (Brussels) and Professional Dance School Aktina (Athens). She holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Physical Theatre, a collaboration between Jasmin Vardimon Company and RHUL. She has professionally collaborated with Marina Abramović, Madeline Hollander, Dominique Duszynski, Ingri Fiksdal, Sevim Akpinar, Yelp Danceco., Patricia Apergi and more. Personal choreographic work has been presented at the Young Choreographers Festival - Haut Scene Copenhagen, SoloDuo Internationales Tanz Festival Köln, On bodies Dance & Performance Arts Festival, Arc for Dance Festival Athens, Dance Days Chania, 2023 ELEVΣIS European Capital of Culture, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Solocoreografico Festival Torino and Frankfurt (Special Mention Jury Award). Eliane has been awarded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship 2022 by ARTWORKS.
Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL) (BSc)
Bath University (MSc).
DansCentrumJette
Jasmin Vardimon Company
Abramović, Madeline Hollander, Dominique Duszynski, Sevim Akpinar, Ingri Fiksdal, Yelp Danceco.,
- Young Choreographers Festival/Haut Scene Copenhagen, SoloDuo Internationales Tanz Festival Köln, On bodies Dance & Performance Arts Festival, Arc for Dance Festival, Dance Days Chania, 2023
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Solocoreografico Festival Torino - Frankfurt (Special Mention Jury Award).
Butoh Performance
Aneesha
Direction, Vocal Performance & Music Composition
Kestrel Farin Leah
Score & Live Music
Performance
Yiannis Christofides
Visual Concept
Physical Plastic
Lighting Design
Vasilis Petinaris
Costume Design
Georgia Moditi
Text & Libretto
‘‘The Unraveling of a Dancer’’ by Rachel Aviv, March 30, 2020 for The New Yorker
Ερμηνεία Butoh
Aneesha Σκηνοθεσία, Φωνητική
Kestrel Farin Leah
She was
Physical Plastic & Aneesha
16+
BODIES ON STAGE
“Let’s keep seeking together till end of life? Or more?”
In She was, performer Kestrel Farin Leah processes the real-life suicide of a dancer colleague and reflects on the parallels between their pedagogical and spiritual journeys in a hybrid performance bringing to life news coverage of the tragedy. She was goes beyond the myth of the tortured artist and the grim correlation between creativity and suicide to address the complexity of pedagogy and mentorship—the loss, or merging, of personal identity, the price of perfection, and the role of intimate and communal care. At the intersections of Eastern philosophy and Western values, of art, devotion and spiritual practice, we dive into perilous gaps in understanding and the studentmaster bond, confront our grief over friends lost, and attempt a gesture towards collective healing.
Physical Plastic
"The Unraveling of a Dancer" της
Rachel Aviv, 30
Physical Plastic (aka Yiannis Christofides and Kestrel Farin Leah) is a composer-performer collaboration creating sound-theatre at the intersection of theatricality and artistic action. Driven by a reciprocal dramaturgical rhythm with autobiography at the center, their deeply collaborative approach is based on the marriage of visual arts with the time-based arts of music and text, and upon the body’s capacity to make immanent current issues of concern. The duo are recipients of honors including the New Music USA award for the devised work ALARM and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant for the work Touch(ed). They have shown work, taught, and been resident artists at leading venues such as Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theatre (REDCAT) (US), The Watermill Center (US), Rialto (CY), and NiMAC (CY).
Soundscape Kalaqs
Ephemeral Symbiosis pt.I: Flumen Publicum
Ria Alexandrou
Kalaqs
BODIES IN THE GARDEN
The audiovisual installation Ephemeral Symbiosis pt.I: Flumen Publicum transforms the garden of Dance House Lefkosia into a hybrid landscape exploring human intervention and curation of nature, juxtaposing cultural and natural elements. The wet, fluid body of the river invites visitors to redefine their relationship with the environment, to walk, listen and co-exist. In the framework of the mobility programme with the Center of Performing Arts MITOS.
E phemeral Symbiosis pt.I: Flumen Publicum
Dance House
Ria Alexandrou (b.1990) is a visual artist based in Cyprus and she is active in the fields of visual installations, textiles, painting and artistic curation in interdisciplinary projects. She graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts (2009-2014) and was a co-founder of the artistic group 'Panic Soup' (2015-2016), creating urban interventions in Limassol. In (2017-) she created and is the artistic director/curator of the project space 'UpperTapper' which hosts exhibitions, workshops, presentations, performances focusing on the local artistic scene and its projection to a wide audience. Her practice is informed by literary texts, socio-political aspects of life and our relationship with nature, while commenting on the juxtapositions of materials in relation to the space in which they are composed. Her latest body of work, invokes sensorial memory through objects which are apparently ordinary, such as carpets, by (mis)- placing and document them as outdoor installations, interventions in the urban space, ruins of the past and the future.”
Idea, Choreography & Performance
Sotiris Sotiriou
Mentor
Anthi Kettirou
Photography & Graphics
Kak Savva
Set & Costume Design
Kak Savva, Sotiris Sotiriou
Masks
Sotiris Sotiriou
Music
Lvkehouse, Soundridemusic
Music Editing
Sotiris Sotiriou
Special thanks to Penny Finiri
Silent Resilience
Sotiris Sotiriou
BODIES ON STAGE
Starting from the innocent, free existence that ignores the social framework, it ends up transforming into a foreign body due to social perceptions and stigmatization of the other. The character gets oppressed, adapts to the new reality, realizes, rebels against, and starts his way to liberation. The healing of an emotional wound is an automatic mechanism of the body and occurs as the individual learns how to respond to their unmet internal needs. Learning that criticism is not helpful; on the contrary, a compassionate attitude towards oneself and acceptance, are the keys to the recovery to our authenticity.
Lvkehouse, Soundridemusic
Sotiris Sotiriou was born in Larnaca in 1992. He graduated from the University of Nicosia with a BA in 2016, where he also participated in the Erasmus program in Riga, Latvia in 2015. He worked as a dancer with AmalgamaCompanhia de Dança in Lisbon, Portugal in 2016-2017. He presented his first work as a choreographer, "NoBody Is...", in June 2017 in the residency programme Artists in Progress organized by Dancehouse Lefkosia, which he also presented in December at the Pop Up Festival in Nicosia.Additionally, in December 2017, he presented the work “Verum” at the 9th No_Body/Moving On! Festival, and in 2019, the work “Παρών! Present! [adj.].” He collaborated as a dancer/actor with Theatre Ena, THOC, and Theatre Anemona in 2015, 2016, and 2019 respectively. Since 2014, he has collaborated with choreographers Jesus Rubio Gamo, Anthi Kettirou, Chloe Melidou, Arianna Economou, Andromachi Dimitriadou Lindahl, Alexandra Battaglia, Stavri Kalopetridou, Erica Charalambous, Vanessa Haska, and Eleanna Charalambous.
Idea & Choreography
Stali Symeon
Co-creator
Karamanou Ioanna
Performing
Karamanou Ioanna
Stali Symeon
Music & Sound Design
Alexandra Katerinopoulou
Costumes & Objects
Georgia Dipla
Eternally Alive - A2 30’
Stali Symeon
BODIES ON STAGE
I read somewhere: “Healing is the new punk” and I thought: “Punk is the old healing”. With admiration, curiosity and a satirical mood we "visit" the Greek punk subculture: its rituals, physicality, spaces, relationships and the discourse it creates. Eternally Alive - A2 is a second attempt to learn and un-learn from the wisdom of the subcultures, from their embodied knowledge and their collective rituals. It is our second try to grasp and let-go at the same time: our relationship, our anger, our social and political concerns, our own "subculture". We explore the contradictions and limits of youth movements, social inclusion, mass culture, subcultures and the very dance piece we share. What is punk to us? What is a dance performance today? Where do the things that don't fit go? What is together? What is a female friendship? What needs to be punked?
“Healing is the new punk”
“Punk is the old healing”
Stali Symeon studied Political Science at EKPA and Dance at Aktina. She continues as a master student at the Royal Academy of Arts in Antwerp and guest artist at DeSingel researching collective rituals and the corporeality of the social outcasts. In recent years she has participated as a dancer-performer in choreographies-productions by: La Coja Dansa (BIOS), Belleville collective, Kiki Baka, Vaso Giannakopoulou, Sandra Grima (Contemporary Theatre), Elisavet Pliakostathi (Athens Video Dance Project), Hara Kassaraki (Phonex Art Gallery), Varvara Bardaka, Anthie Drilia. Since 2020 she has been collaborating with BPM theater group as a choreographer (Rematias Festival, Mavromichalis Theatre, PLYFA, New World Theatre). Since 2021, her own works have been presented at the Lycabettus Festival, at the M54 venue, at the Container festival in Thessaloniki. She has also attended seminars in Greece and abroad. Since 2018 she has been teaching dance and yoga.
La Coja Dansa (BIOS), Belleville
Video Dance Project),
(Phonex Art Gallery),
(Mir Festival).
Performance
Elias Klark
Hannah Badura
Costumes
Hannah Badura
Elias Klark
Sound & Lights
Elias Klark
Mentors
Joy Mariama Smith
Bruno Listopad
Scenography
Elias Klark
Hannah Badura
Elias Klark & Hannah Badura
BODIES ON STAGE
From the crack of the wall, I saw it all
Always following but no one notice
From the crack of the wall, I saw it all My grandmother, melting the sun
Please open a space for my silence so I can find what I have lost A mouth full of pomegranate (it feels good but what do I do when it all crumbles?)
Falling into a reversed present, seeing a world melting away, I saw it all from the crack of the wall,
Bodies are shattered and yet there is still sound in the bones. From the crack of the wall, I saw it all.
The earth spins in the cavities of my mouth.
Sleepwalking between the particles and the resonance of a broken memory Who left those holes in my body?
From the crack of the wall, someone tried to stitch the lost souls And I saw it all…
Hannah Badura
Κοστούμια
Hannah Badura Ηλίας
Joy Mariama Smith
Bruno Listopad
Hannah Badura
Elias Klark is a performance and movement artist from Cyprus, currently based in Amsterdam. He trained as a performer in the Expanded Contemporary Dance program and is currently studying choreography at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. The artist's work reflects themes of colonialism, diaspora and militarised states. His research explores the complex geopolitical issues of his birthplace and his experiences in the Cypriot armed forces. Through his practice, they aim to improve relationships and form unified bodies, promoting collective coexistence with others.
Hannah Badura is a Brazilian and Portuguese dancer and performer, living between the Netherlands and Portugal. Graduated as a dancer (2023) from the Expanded Contemporary Dance program at the Academie voor Theater en Dans van Amsterdam. Worked as an interpreter with Kenzo Kusuda, Elisa Zuppini, Krisztina de Châtel and Marcelo Evelin. She works through collaborative projects and is particularly interested in focusing her research on processes of decolonization and practices that cultivate tenderness as a transformative tool.
Both artists, together with Catarina Paiva and Merle Havas co-created Buffer Zone (2023 ATD, Amsterdam).
Η Hannah Badura
Kenzo Kusuda, Elisa Zuppini, Krisztina de Châtel
Marcelo Evelin.
fsssssssssssss
Nefeli Kentoni
& Maria Papacharalambous
BODIES IN THE GARDEN
“A writer is someone who plays with the body of his mother. [Roland Barthes]
I am a writer; I must play with the body of my mother.”
Maggie Nelson
Maria Papacharalambous and Nefeli Kentoni –mother and daughter – thread a multi-layered story about all that is willingly and unwillingly passed down from generation to generation. Are wounds and trauma part of our dowry?
The multimedia performance uncovers the diverse manifestations of motherhood – from the bond between parent and child, to the relationship between artist and artwork, and finally, to the ties binding citizen and motherland.
Old wounds carried through umbilical cords; current wounds carried through language, objects, geography… Until the stage becomes a mother[land] full of landmines, ready to explode:
fsssssssssssss BOOOMMMM!!!!!!
The damage cannot always be undone, the scar remains, but the attempt to heal is nevertheless made over and over again. Look!!! A firework? No. A wound in the sky.
Director/Writer: Nefeli Kentoni
Scenographer: Maria Papacharalambous
Performers: Zoe Georgallis, Nefeli Kentoni
Maria Papacharalambous
Music Composition: Manos Stratis
Musician: Will Scott
Maggie Nelson
Nefeli Kentoni (b.1998, Cyprus) is director, writer and interdisciplinary artist. The theatrical and cinematic form have been the platform in which she negotiates and experiments the gaps between language and image, the implicit exertions that sustain the performer-viewer relationship, and the lightness/gravity of existence. Weaving together tenderness, absurdity, and humour, she dismantles reality and rebuilds it within unpredictable landscapes.
Maria Papacharalambous is an artist based in Nicosia, Cyprus. In her thirty years of presence on the local and international art scene, she has created a diverse oeuvre that includes painting, installations, video and short films, theatre sets and costumes, renovated ruins and social sculpture. She is a cofounder of the ARTos Research and Cultural Foundation. Her work is in numerous public and private collections.
Αlexis Vassiliou
18+
BODIES ON STAGE
In his work ΣΑΚΡΑ , Alexis Vassiliou continues the research he began in 2020 with the creation of the short film entitled ΕΓΚΑΤΑ , attempting to reconstruct a rhythmic, acoustic and bodily ritual on the origins of language, emotions and the human experience. Having as references the most identifiable melodic and rhythmic motives of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, the performance seeks to reconstruct through the process of abstraction and fragmentation the starting point of life – as the seven performers are in a constant effort to activate the basic functions of the breath, the voice and the mechanism of movement. Please note that the performance contains full frontal – nudity and the performers will be in close proximity to the audience members.
Concept, Direction & Choreography: Alexis Vassiliou. Performers: Arianna Marcoulides, Loukia Pieridou, Styliana Apostolou, Andreas Patsias, Βianca Casaburi, Rafael Candela, Hubert Mielke Artistic Collaborator: Belinda Papavasiliou. Dramaturgical Advice: Louiza Papaloizou. Sound Design/Music Composition: Marianna Michael. Vocal Coach: Cathryn Robson. Photo: Stelios Kallinikou. Graphic Design: Philippos Vassiliades. Μain Sponsor: Department of Contemporary Culture-Deputy Ministry of Culture. Developed during the artistic residencies at: D.ID Dance Identity/Vienna-Austria and Muzeum Susch/Art Stations Foundation CH -within the framework of the Acziun Susch programme-Switzerland.
Casaburi, Rafael Candela, Hubert Mielke
Αlexis Vassiliou is a performing arts maker. He studied music, composition of music for films/theatre and television and contemporary dance. Alexis has been directing and choreographing works for the last 15 years and he was invited to present his performances in various festivals in Cyprus and abroad. He was selected as a resident artist and curator in European programmes and international festivals/events. He was a member in selection committees and an advisor for contemporary dance programmes organised by the Deputy Ministry of Culture. From 2016 until October 2023 he served as the general and artistic director at Dance House Lemesos. In April 2024 he was appointed to the position of the Chief Director at Rialto Theatre.
Æffective Choreography
André Uerba/SHORT HOPE
18+
BODIES ON STAGE
How does your body feel today? In this time of velocity and violence, choreographer and performer André Uerba explores intimacy as a practice of being together, along with seven performers and a musician. This work plays with the boundaries between sharing and withdrawing, movement and stillness, vulnerability and exposure.
The performers structure their encounter through a slow pace, propelling their bodies to attune, sink and merge together, refining their present moment. The desire to make hidden things visible is unfolded by their intimate gestures. Collectively they turn their gaze to inner landscapes where slowness and touch become a main practice.
Concept & Artistic Direction: André Uerba. Created with György Jellinek, Jone San Martin, Lyllie Rouvière, Manoela Rangel, Pedro Aybar. Performed in Nicosia by Christopher Mills, Despina Michaelidou, Ester Machado, Gabriel Olivella, Manoela Rangel, Nayia T. Karacosta, Panos Malactos. Sound Design & Live Music : Kreatress. Song Excerpt/Live Rendition of Vivaldi’s “Cum dederit” Dramaturgical Support : Meg Stuart. Light Design, Space, Photos & Live Music : André Uerba Executive Production & Press : Short Hope/André Uerba. Co-production: Radialsystem Residency Support : Tanzfabrik, Theaterhaus Mitte. Funded by NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK - STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Assistance Program for Dance.
André Uerba.
György Jellinek, Jone San Martin, Lyllie Rouvière, Manoela Rangel, Pedro Aybar.
Ester Machado, Gabriel Olivella, Manoela Rangel,
Vivaldi’s “Cum dederit”.
&
: Kreatress.
André Uerba.
Christopher Mills,
Meg Stuart.
&
Short Hope/André Uerba.
Radialsystem.
Tanzfabrik, Theaterhaus Mitte.
NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK - STEPPING OUT,
Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media
NEUSTART KULTUR. Assistance Program for Dance.
André Uerba is a Choreographer, Performer and Bodyworker. Born in Lisbon and based in Berlin since 2013, he holds an MA in Arts, Solo/ Dance/ Authorship at HZT Berlin (2015). His research is focused within the potentialities of an encounter, slowness and the concept of rehearsing intimacy in a performative and social context.
In 2018 he developed the project “Burn Time”, presented in Portugal, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Slovenia, Indonesia and Taiwan. Ηe developed “Fire Starter” (2019-2020) and the film “Inviting Moments of Stillness” (2021) and “A hole the size of your touch” (2021), presented in the frame of BoCA – Biennial of Contemporary Arts (PT). In 2022 he created “Æffective Choreography” presented at Radialsystem (Berlin), Halle am Berghain (Berlin), Tanzbiennale Heidelberg and Antwerp Queer Arts Festival.
Uerba also facilitates workshops interweaving his knowledge gained with his certification as a Sexological Bodyworker (ISB Berlin) and his experience within performing arts. In 2023 he received the Pina Bausch Fellowship.
Ο André Uerba είναι
performer και bodyworker.
Solo/ Dance/ Authorship
HZT Berlin (2015).
έργο "Fire Starter" (2019-2020) και το φιλμ "Inviting Moments of Stillness" (2021) και "A hole the size of your touch" (2021), που παρουσιάστηκαν
BoCA - Biennale of Contemporary Arts (PT).
"Æffective Choreography" που
2022
Radialsystem (Βερολίνο), στο Halle am Berghain (Βερολίνο),
Tanzbiennale Heidelberg και
Antwerp Queer Arts Festival.
Sexological Bodyworker (ISB Berlin)
Pina Bausch.
Festival Contributors
Artistic Director: Petros Konnaris
Coordination: Christiana Antonoudiou
Selection Commitee: Arianna Economou, Andromachi Demetriadou
Lindahl, Pantelis Georgiou, Elena Agathokleous, Petros Konnaris
Production Assistant: Georgia Andreou
Technical Director: George Lazoglou
Visual Identity: Mary Pillakouri
Social media coordination: Ioli Kaskani
Volunteers: Annie Khoury, Antria Papanikolaou, Elisavet Panagiotou, Ifigeneia Christodoulou, Maria Kasapi, Marianna Yiannaki, Napa Gavriel, Haris Iacovou, Lucie Robson, Moreen Crandel, Nava Ilfu
Robson, Moreen Crandel, Nava Ilfu
Dance House Lefkosia Board
President: Maria Kamberis (Selas Dance Company)
Vice-President: Andromachi Demetriadou Lindahl (Asomates Dynameis)
Secretary: Pantelis Georgiou (Dance Gate Lefkosia-Cyprus)
Treasurer: Marios Ktoridis (Independent Artist)
Member: Arianna Economou (Echo Arts)
(Dance Gate Lefkosia-Cyprus)
Διοργάνωση Organization
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Mobility Collaborator
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