4th
International Kinitiras Choreography Lab Summer 2013
Final
Sharing of Projects
Friday
26th July 2013, 9.00pm
The 4th International Kinitiras
Choreography Lab 2013 draws to an end with the sharing
of the event on Friday 26th July 2013 (9.00pm) at Kinitiras Studio.
As begun last year, the
session welcomed international participants who worked together with Greek
artists in a creative dialogue that has resulted in a variety of approaches and
concerns embedded within the 'exposed practice'. This fact reminded us
that there isn't a single aesthetic that defines what contemporary choreography
is, on the contrary, what makes contemporary choreography relevant in our
changing times is its ability to redefine existing knowledge, open new
territories, find new rationales for being an important contributor to the fabric of our contemporary life.
The event is presented to you as an open platform. These are not finished pieces, on the contrary, what you are witnessing tonight are ‘beginnings’ of ideas shaped, tested, moulded and remoulded during the month and now given concrete form so that they can enter in dialogue with you the audience. They are open investigations, and therefore will not be presented in a proscenium format but in a dynamic open space of interaction. We encourage you to move around the space, position and reposition yourself in different and proximal relationships with the artists and their proposals, engage with, not just receive the work.
The event is presented to you as an open platform. These are not finished pieces, on the contrary, what you are witnessing tonight are ‘beginnings’ of ideas shaped, tested, moulded and remoulded during the month and now given concrete form so that they can enter in dialogue with you the audience. They are open investigations, and therefore will not be presented in a proscenium format but in a dynamic open space of interaction. We encourage you to move around the space, position and reposition yourself in different and proximal relationships with the artists and their proposals, engage with, not just receive the work.
The presentations making up the event follow this order:
Of being and of
being seen
Choreographer/Performer: Xica Lisboa
Sound Composition and Visual Media: Kiriakos Spirou
Soundtrack:
excerpts and new material inspired by “Science”
and “Theory of Knowledge and Art” by
Jorge Albuquerque Vieira and “In Name of
The Body” by Nízia Villaça and Fred Góes.
“(...)who can
carry the complexity of the emotive, the emotional and affective, which is the
greater complexity, which is one that will allow effectively, if that happens,
connectivity between humans and enabling connectivity between human beings can
come to allow a true society , not the proto-society, the primitivism? If the
question is in this direction, it is art that can facilitate this.” Jorge
Albuquerque Vieira at the Theory of Knowledge and Art
This is not a
show. This is an invitation to share and maybe to connect. It's an exercise of
being and of being seen. I seek to be at the exact present of my body
experience and I invite you to share the journey through the fullness of its
success and the recognition of its failures. How much open are you to embark on
this journey? How much am I able to open my perception to the surrounding
without losing the presence in my body experience?
Choosing
between fear and strength
Choreographer/Performer: Marilena Papaioannou
Music: Max Richter, Kerry Muzzey
Remixed by Kiriakos Spirou
I’m not
sure if and to what extent one is born fearful or courageous; more and more, I
believe that every creature is a mixture of both fear and strength. What we
learn and what we experience, gradually defines who we are. And usually, there
comes a time in life when we decide whether one of these two traits will
dominate over the other. We chose. We chose to live a life in fear or we chose
to live a life in strength. My research is based on two people I once met: a
fearful and a fearless one. Two fictional characters of a book. The striking
opposition of their idiosyncrasies has long intrigued me because of one reason:
in spite of it, they fell deeply for each other and managed to establish a
loving companionship in life.
So,
what you will see today is my first attempt to use the human body and its
entire expressive means, to play out these two feelings:
fear and inner strength. But also, the constant struggle between the two…
[hjärtslag]
Choreorgapher/performer: Maria Sermpou
Sound composition:
Kiriakos Spirou
Stand still for a moment…
Close your eyes and relax…
Clear your head and focus on your breathing…
Suddenly you notice your right hand index vibrating. You notice the pulse that goes through your entire
body in just this little index finger of yours. The heartbeat is there and you are finally listening loudly and
clearly; you are feeling alive and awakened. You are listening, feeling,
touching… You are finally present in the
moment.
“Heartbeat is defined as the pulse of your heart, or a
single short moment, or something that acts as a unifying force" .
Into a Phase Shifter
Choreographer/performer: Ismini Makaratzi
Music composition and sound design for Media: Dimitris Palaiogiannis ( http://dimitris
palaiogiannis.blogspot.gr
Our sense of our identity limits and
control us. Does not allow us to fulfil many of our desires, but also settles
our anxiety by giving us feelings of safety and some consistency and continuity
in our lives. The safety of the familiar, often leads us to insist on stereotypes
in a limited range of choice. We refuse
behaviours and desires that are deemed incompatible with ourselves.
What if we choose to change that
limited range of choice ?
What if we allow desire to be the
guide when making a radical choice?
The research has been about on-going
feedback of the sense data between thought (here: thoughts inspired by the theme)
and acting (moving) searching proof to the proposal that every action is an
after effect of a conscious intention.. It's about a meditation process, which
starts from stillness and leads to movement with the intention to highlight the
wholeness of body/mind.
Untitled solo
Maria Tsichli
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Director/performer:
Maja Maetkovic (with Ismini, Maria S, Marilena, Xica)
This
piece was developed as an exploration of the two natures (of many that exist
and make us ‘us’) that we all as humans have-
water and paper . The water as a
substance that we are all literally made of, that builds our bodies, our cells,
that we drink and need to survive. And,
opposed to this, the paper as ,,what we are on paper”- our birth certificate,
our passports, our id cards, our diplomas, our bills etc. It is an experiment one could say- enlarging what builds us and making it an
obstacle - water, which exposed to the look of others becomes WET ; and paper
as a system of bureaucratic restraints that are juxtaposed to our physicality
and prohibit it from moving.What you will see is the process of trying to merge
these two dual natures of our existence with the hopeful thought that, after all,
water deconstructs paper.
FOR THE LAB:
Ana Sánchez-Colberg: Artistic
Director
Kiriakos Spirou: Production
Manager and sound engineering for the event (except Shape Shifter)
Pavlos Mavridis: Lighting
Angeliki Pavlou :
Administration and Communications Manager
With our thanks to Flora and Vicky at Kinitiras Studio and all the
visiting artists Androniki (and Georgos and Christos), Andreas, John Paul, and
Dimitris in absentia, for their input in the planning and delivery of this instalment
of the lab. See you next year for our 5th
anniversary celebration!
