SNF ARTWORKS Dance Fellows present their works at SNF Nostos
ARTWORKS is partnering with SNF Nostos again this summer and spotlighting aspects of modern dance, presenting the works of young choreographers who have participated in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Artist Fellowship Program. From August 26 to 29, dancers and choreographers will bring their movement to the Agora of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), a central space where people meet, interact, and create experiences.
The creators were inspired during the pandemic to choreograph the dances they will present at the Agora. Today more than ever, it is important for us to rethink the body’s experience in space. In their works, they turn a critical eye to how the body functions when it is confined, restricted, and precarious, and dance is seen as a form of resistance, escape, and articulation of possible and impossible ways of acting. The Agora becomes a space of experimentation and freedom. The audience will have the opportunity to observe a diversity of trends in contemporary dance from the rejuvenating perspective of talented young creators.
Thursday, August 26
Safe Distance
Choreography: Stella Dimitrakopoulou (SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2019)
Performers: Maria Vlachou, Stella Dimitrakopoulou, Maria Kandilaki, Christian Karagianni
Duration: 15’
What is it like to have a police officer constantly on top of you, with sirens screeching as soon as you take a step? What does a safe distance between us sound like? The closer our bodies get, the stronger the vibrations between us get. Can we embrace each other without causing our own destruction? An audio-kinetic game with the public health rules on social distancing, where social contact is distorted through telecommunication.
Friday, August 27
Puzzle
Choreographer/dancer: Nikos Kalivas (SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2019)
Assistant choreographer: Betty Dramisioti
Music: Krzysztof Penderecki, Ioannis Angelakis
Duration: 20’
“It's a trap when you lose a basic part of your body.
it's a trip when you continue without it.”
A musical turmoil is embodied in dead-end pathways. A trapped body explores, trying to escape from a kinetic state, seeking its own bodily freedom.
Saturday, August 28
Omen of Fárιsa
Choreographers/dancers: Danae* & Dionysos
Music Composition: Constantine Skourlis
Cello: Konstantinos Hinis
With the support of: Big Story Productions, Melina Mercouri Open Air Theatre, Loop Dance Lab, Oktw Yoga Pilates, Seli Kanou, Apostolos Nikolaidis
*Danae Dimitriadi (SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2020)
Duration: 15’
Omen of Fárisa is a duet that was created for outdoor spaces in the context of the Pilgrims actions. The work follows two characters’ need for connection and contact as they remain constantly in close intimacy. It is inspired by the notion of pilgrimage as a simulation of a journey through life, animals, and natural landscapes. How can two separate trajectories meet and travel together? How can relationships interact and support each other? How can the hierarchy of humans and animals be broken?
Sunday, August 29
We always enjoy time as a shelter
Concept-Choregraphy: Angelos Papadopoulos (SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2020)
Performance - Co-creation: Danae Pazirgiannidi, Angelos Papadopoulos
Music: Jeph Vanger
Choreography consultant: Lara Buffard
Duration: 20’
Can you count off five seconds in your head?
The attempt to repeat a coincidental meeting. The work, influenced by the universe of Samuel Beckett, is a game based on repetition within the triptych of movement - breath - gaze. Imagine two bodies that want to come into contact but don’t know how. The body proposes ways of observing through the gaze, with time suspended. In the era of social distancing, we have all asked ourselves whether we will touch a body or not. This dance speaks about the time we need to decide on contact with another.
Details of the program are likely to change in accordance with the latest COVID-19 health measures.