Day 3 / 17.11.2024 / Sunday
Loop
Maria Kasapi
18'
The loop…
The human loop…
The loop of everyday life…
The everyday loop of human life…
This loop drives people into a repetitive toxic kinesiology within their routines and prevents the fulfilment of their life cycle. This cycle symbolises birth, growth, maturing, death, and the rebirth that the human being is experiencing, while the loop represents the patterns, the repeated activities, and habits of people. This loop appears at all life stages, from the early childhood until adulthood. Through this, comes the illusion of a journey back to the past and, conversely, to the future.
Choreographer: Maria Kasapi
Performers: Μichalis Tziampos, Andreas Charalambous, Pavlos Papadopoulos
Mentor: Andria Michaelidou
Video production: Nick Dino
Music producer & sound engineer: Andreas Konstantinou
Prop maker: Dionisis Voniatis
Special thanks: Endless breaking studio, Urban Oasis Studio, Outplay Dance Studio, Christos Kasapis
Maria Κasapi is a choreographer based in Nicosia. She studied Dance (BA) at the University of Nicosia, and has collaborated with choreographers such as Lia Haraki, Ariana Economou, Alexis Vassiliou, and Kiki Economou. As a choreographer and performer, she participated at numerous festivals such as No Body, Interspace, Kypria, Summer Festival (2021 & 2022), Visibility, at the 19th, 20th and 21st Cyprus Choreography Platform, Dance Waves, and as an artist-in-residence at Moving the New - Dance House Lemesos, Performance Lab-Open Up (NiMAC), Dancers (Alive) residency - Dance House Nicosia. In 2022, she created the sideBside production team that organises the Juxtapose Performance Festival in Cyprus (2022-24). Maria has attended classes by established choreographers in Greece, Barcelona, Arizona, and Jamaica.
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Don’t You Just Love Melting?
Melina Sophocleous
15'
When we pause to reflect on our place in time and space,
there are countless examples of how we, as humans,
have developed / changed / continue to change,
the various ways of building our space for
rest / protection / pleasure.
We can also see numerous examples of how these choices have
shaped / changed
and many times,
deformed / destroyed
The environment we find ourselves in.
Observing and reflecting on certain patterns of
development / change / re-shaping,
which are accustomed to be interpreted symbolically as signs of progress,
we are, in fact, relatively self-sabotaging choices.
With the intention to share this reflection with an audience,
the performance explores the complexities of the connection between
a human + synthetic material + sound,
Within a controlled environment, zooming into a microcosmos of
building / shaping / resting / destroying
and
unavoidably / forcibly
stepping back and reflecting.
Choreographer & performer: Melina Sofocleous
Music: Kalaqs
Set design: Rebecca Taki
Lighting design: Vasilis Petinaris
Melina Sophocleous is half Cypriot and half Welsh/American, born and raised in Cyprus. She graduated from Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in 2017, and has since gone on to work with choreographers and companies in the UK, Italy, Denmark, Greece, and Cyprus. From 2018-2020, she took part in La Biennale Di Venezia’s annual festival, performing works by Marie Chouinard, Daina Ashbee, Adriano Bolognino, Sofia Nappi, Rima Pipoyan, and presented her own work Rhythm and Blues, as part of the festival’s young choreographers platform. Melina also presented her works Voice Mail (2019) and Cross Pollination (2020) as part of the Cyprus Choreography Platform. From 2019-2021, she performed in Francesca Foscarini’s Punk Kill Me Please and, in 2021, she joined Phoenix Dance Theater (UK) as a full-time company member. In 2023, Melina worked in Onassis Stegi’s production House of Trouble, with Patricia Apergis’ Aerites Dance Company (GR), in Song Train Twins with Toussaint To Move Company (UK), in Are You Ok? by Panos Malactos (CY). Her latest work, Vounaros, premiered at the Open House Festival in Cyprus.
ORGASM
Harry Koushos
30'
In a daring performance filled with moments of heartbreaking vulnerability and light-hearted humour, Harry Koushos literally and figuratively sets fire to archetypal symbols and invites us to join in an orgiastic climax. By scanning the QR code, you can answer questions anonymously and contribute to the stage effect of the show.
Really, when was the last time you died?
Director, performer: Harry Koushos
Dramaturg: Eleni Moleski
Text: Harry Koushos
Text revision: Odysseas I. Constantinou
Scenography, costumes: Harry Koushos, Marilena Kalaintzantonaki
Sound design: Teo Pouzbouris
Music: Ecati
VFX: Iasonas Meintanis
Graphic design: Panos Klouvas
Photos: Mairy Leonardou
The play contains nudity and is for people over 18!
Harry Koushos (born 1988) is a graduate of Niki Kontaxaki Professional Dance School. From 2011 to 2022, he worked as a dancer for Alexandra Waierstall in Germany. In 2013, his work received support from the Module Dance and Aerowaves European networks as an emerging choreographer. Subsequently, his work was also supported by the Cultural Services, Stegi Onassis, ARC for Dance, THOC, the Greek National Opera, and others. He has choreographed music videos, concerts, TV shows, commercials, and musicals. Additionally, he directed a medium-length film and various music video clips. In theatre, he has collaborated with directors as a choreographer and performer alike. He has taught dance at universities, academies, and professional dance schools. Since 2023, he has been collaborating with psychotherapist Mariana Vassilaki on character analysis seminars through movement.
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