Day 2 / 16.11.2024 / Saturday
A Body of Infinite Voices
Alexandra Waierstall
25'
A work with and for performer Elena Agathokleous. Following their successful collaboration for Heart Moment, which was presented in Germany in September, the two return with this new solo project. The choreographer will guide and create a temporary space for Elena Agathokleous to find her own emergence, incorporating the memory of many with whom she has moved. Her body and presence will become the surface where sound and silence, movement and stillness will prompt us to contemplate the adventurous movement of stillness, the sound of sound, and to approach the experience of time through the reorganisation of her body as space, as a moving archive.
Choreographer: Alexandra Waierstall
Performer: Elena Agathokleous
Music: Volker Bertelmann, Alexandra Waierstall
Lights: Alexandra Waierstall
Alexandra Waierstall is a Düsseldorf-based Cypriot choreographer, practicing for over 15 years internationally. Her conceptually and physically detailed investigations are expressed through choreographies, installations, and film works crafting sounds, texts, images, and the moving body. She approaches choreography as a vehicle for developing new skills and knowledge for living together, connecting bodies, life forms, and environments: an act of empowerment, a way to reinvent our world anew. She has presented her works at Dia Art Foundation in Beacon, New York, Musée du Louvre – FIAC, Sadler’s Wells, Dansenshus Oslo, Mousonturm, Crossing Festival Beijing, Fringe Festival Shanghai, International Festival Seoul, Dansenshus Stockholm, amongst others.
The Lullaby of Horses
Styliana Apostolou
15'
Structured around shifting dualities—love and hate, victim and attacker, self and other—the choreography reveals how domestic life often becomes a microcosm of larger societal patterns. The piece also addresses the internal conflict that arises when we ignore our primal, animalistic nature. The characters, through their struggle, search for a connection to something both primal and divine, yearning for authenticity and meaning beyond the manufactured behaviours society imposes. As the façade of the relationship fractures, the audience is left to question: when does love turn into despise? How does the symbiosis of a relationship become dangerous? The choreography suggests that duality alone cannot explain the totality of human experience, as the characters, lost in the tension between their animal instincts and societal expectations, reveal the dangerous consequences of denying our deeper nature. In its raw portrayal of primal conflict, and the quest for transcendence, this duet invites viewers to reflect on the fragile balance between love, control, and the search for both the primal and the divine in our human experience.
Concept & choreography: Styliana Apostolou
Performers: Styliana Apostolou & Chris Mills
Music: Giorgos Sisamos
Lighting design: Panagiotis Manousis
Set design: Styliana Apostolou
Props on stage: Apostolos Panteli
Styliana Apostolou, a Cyprus-based creator and performer, began training in the arts at a young age and later studied at Codarts University in Rotterdam. Starting her career in the Netherlands, she created solo pieces and collaborated with musicians, fine artists, and other creatives. Her performances have appeared in galleries, theaters, and site-specific spaces. In 2020, she joined the Venice Biennale College under Marie Chouinard’s direction. Apostolou has worked for artists including Alexis Vassiliou, Federica Dauri, Panos Malaktos, Xavier Le Roi, and others. Recently, she co-created Vacationists in the Absurd with Polena Kolia Petersen, and her latest piece, TGR (2024), received funding from Cyprus’s Deputy Ministry of Culture.
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O2
Ivi Hadjivassiliou
27'
O2
Inhale.
Exhale.
Time. Time. Time.
Space.
I. You. We.
Life.
Journey.
Right.
Freedom.
Cardiogram.
Breathe. Kiss. You.
Suspension.
Vacuum.
Zero.
Chaos.
Suffocation.
Absence.
Unfreedom.
Inhale. Exhale.
Breathe.
Again.
Is there still oxygen for everyone?
Choreographer & performer: Ivi Hadjivassiliou
Dramaturgy: Lea Maleni
Performers: Giannis Economides, Anna Nicolaou, Alexandros M. Kyriazis
Costume & set design: Sophia Mavromichalis
Music composition: Savvas Chrysostomou
Rock climbing Instructor: Andreas Theofanous
Ivi Hadjivassiliou graduated from the Athens State School of Dance. Since 2016, she has choreographed and directed the works Atrapos in progress, Atrapos, Sarlo, Uneed2, Sileny Posun, Blurred and VooDoo BeRrieS. As a movement director, she collaborated on the works Biomagic and Sharks: Misunderstood Creatures, The Complete Bible in One Hour (Antilogos Theatre), and Love Story (THOC), directed by Eleni Anastasiou, as well as Company 4x4 (Persona) and The Steadfast Tin Soldier (THOC Production), directed by Lea Maleni. Since 2013, she has worked with Anton Lashky (Slovakia) and Penny Diamantopoulou as an assistant choreographer, performing at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus and in New York as a member of the Hellenic Dance Company. She has also collaborated with and danced in works by Fotis Nikolaou, Amfidromo Chorotheatro, Asomates Dynameis, ARtitude, Milena Ugren Koulas, and Lambros Lambrou.
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Reading the Performance and Performing the Book Lia Haraki
30'
Over the last two years, we have been creating a book about the works that Lia and her team of collaborators presented from 2003 to 2023. The idea of the book is to speak about how the bodies featured in it experience an ephemeral art form that ends immediately after its presentation. That would be the voices and views of the performers, academics, collaborators, audience members, and journalists. Our performance is an interactive game with the audience in relation to the book, so as to see if its content can be recycled and become another performance work. Our bodies will be responding, remembering, reacting, and sharing like a living archive.
Concept & dramaturgy: Lia Haraki
Performance: Erica Charalambous & Lia Ηaraki
Also on stage: Yiangos Hadjiyiannis
Text editing: Erica Charalambous
Book graphics: Despina Kannaourou
Lights: Alexander Jotovic
Video and technical management: Yiangos Hadjiyiannis
Production: PELMA
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Lia Haraki is a performer, practitioner, and interdisciplinary artist working across performance, choreography, devised theatre, song, and what she calls repetitive poetry. Lia’s performances have been presented in festivals internationally and were twice shortlisted at the Aerowaves EU network. Her practices are taught at Impuls Τanz festival in Vienna, amongst other places. In 2014, she presented her solo Tune In at the Venice Biennale (special mention for the Cyprus and Lithuanian Pavilion). Her project The Performance Shop Concept was selected as one of 25 best dance practices by the EDN. She was part of the initiating team for creating the dance programme of the University of Nicosia in 2007, and was the initiator of Dance House Lemesos.
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