NO_BODY / 10th Dance, Movement & Performance Arts Festival

PERFORMANCE:

Saturday, 1 December 2018

14:00-17:00

– IOANNIS MANDAFOUNIS (GR/CH) & BRICE CATHERIN (FR)

19:30

– CHOROTHEATRO OMADA PENDE – ROULA KLEOVOULOU

– MILENA UGREN KOULAS

– NATALIE TSINGIS

– NEKTARIOS RODOSTHENOUS / ‘KLINISCH GETESTET’

– SEVIM AKPINAR

MOVE 5

ΠΑΡΑΛΛΗΛΕΣ ΕΚΔΗΛΩΣΕΙΣ/ PARALLEL EVENTS:

Sunday, 2 December 2018

19.30

– ANDRIA MICHAELIDOU

– ANNITA / MARIA / CHRISTAKIS

– CHRISTIANA IOANNOU

– DEMETRA DEMETRIADOU

– DEMETRA KALLITSI

– JASMIN RAPTI (GR)

– KYRIAKOS IERODIAKONOU

– MARIA KASAPI

– NICOLAS GEORGIOU

– PAMBOS VOSKARIDES

– WE CIRCLE COLLECTIVE

Bauhaus and Dance

The evening starts with a choreography by Arianna Economou, for which the Knot, a painting with gouache on paper by Anni Albers created in 1947, serves as the inspiration. In her choreographic interpretation of Albers artwork, she traces the movement of the 3 strings, in yellow, red and blue, “taking them for a walk”.

The film Triadic ballet by Oskar Schlemmer leads us directly into the world of Bauhaus and its famous ballet.

After the screening of the film, three dancers take to the stage, in their own self-designed triadic ballet reminiscent costumes. They present a new interpretation of Oskar Schlemmer’s work, almost 100 years after its premiere in 1922.

The costumes – body extensions – , which play a vital role in this dance performance, were created by students under the guidance of Melita Couta at the Department of Design and Multimedia (University of Nicosia).
This event is taking place in collaboration with Dance Gate Lefkosia.
Dance Gate Lefkosia would like to thank Dancehouse Lefkosia for collaboration.

Film screening: Das triadische Ballett (Triadic ballet) by Oskar Schlemmer (1922)
Screenplay and choreography: Margarete Hasting, Franz Schömbs, Georg Verden
Music: Erich Ferstl
Dancers: Edith Demharter, Ralph Smolik, Hannes Winkler

Dance performances: Choreography: Arianna Economou
Dancers: Arianna Marcoulides, Sotiris Sotiriou, Belinda Papavasileiou, Ianthe Economou
Assistants: Stephanie Pastella, Fivos Papacostas
Costume design: Chrysanthos Diamantakis, Kleantis Constantinou, Miriam Gatt, Christina Georgiadou, Elena Hadjigeorgiou, Nafsika Demetriou

Arianna Economou is a pioneer dance and interactive artist, activist in the community, founder of Echo Arts Living Arts Centre and Dance Gate Lefkosia Cyprus (EDN member), also founding and member organization of Dance House Lefkosia. Both as producer-manager and artist Arianna has been collaborating with many local and international artists in numerous creative inter-disciplinary and inter-communal projects towards the development of dance as an interactive art form. Arianna is the artistic director of the No_Body Dance & Performance Arts festival at DH Lefkosia and part of the research team towards the interdisciplinary training of the performer with Dorinda and Peter Hulton (UK). Her solo and group works participated in many festivals such as Pafos2017 ECoC, Wiesbaden Festival for New Plays in Europe and at Cairo Experimental Theatre Festival. Arianna Economou is the receiver of the Tefkros Anthias and Theodosis Pieridis Award (2005).

Melita Couta was born in Nicosia. She graduated from Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London with a BA in Fine Art – Sculpture and continued at the Slade School of Fine Art in London where she received a MFA in Sculpture. She has been working with sculpture, installation art, photography, drawing and collage.

Melita Couta has been working extensively in theatre and performing arts as a director, scenographer and project co-ordinator. Since 2006, she has been the co-founder of Paravan, an independent company who is focusing on experimental theatre, performance and curating. Since 2016, she has been teaching at the Nicosia University Fine Art Department.

Artists in Progress 2019

The Ripple Effect
Marina Poyiadji & Nefeli Tsiouti

The work is inspired by Newton’s third law of action-reaction: For every action, there is equal amount of reaction.
When transferring this law from physics to social sciences, one can see that it doesn’t just apply, it actually expands in a chain of reactions. The ripple effect.
There is war on one side of the planet, and the whole word suffers. On the contrary, a colourful bouquet, flaunts a smile on someone.

Choreographers/ Dancers/ Costumes: Marina Poyiadji & Nefeli Tsiouti
Music: Armen Miran & Hraach – Αlderbarach

Παρών! Present! [adjective]
Sotiris Sotiriou

I am here! Trying to touch you but I can’t. I’m there, still I’m not. Watching you always from afar… thinking I’m near. A void in human contact, and face to face interaction is created between us, through a medium which was supposed to bring us closer.

Choreographer: Sotiris Sotiriou in collaboration with Stephanie Pastella
Dancers/Performers: Stephanie Pastella, Sotiris Sotiriou
Music: Painkiller, Robert Nichol 2013, AshamaluevMusic, Ólafur Arnalds

Friendenemy
Demetra Demetriadou

The Choreography focuses on the issue of inner conflict regarding opposite powers at work within us all in the forms of “Friend – Enemy”. There exist moments when a strong opponent, like an invisible enemy comes up as an unsurmountable obstacle to the realization of our dreams. It puts barriers to our “will” using our own insecurities, contradictions, remorse. It sets us on hold as in the betrayal of heroes in Becket’s plays or with the soul simmering like the samovar in Chekhov’s works. How could we find the golden incision?
Let’s finally become the Goddot that we are waiting for and grasp our lives with our own hands, and guide our soul toward our dreams. Only perhaps when the soul stops simmering and begins to impose its “will” to logic, can we then at last reconcile within ourselves the two, thus achieving more harmony and balance to have the courage to live our dreams.

Idea / Choreography: Demetra Demetriadou
Performer: Demetra Demetriadou

Orange cake
Nasia Kelepeshi

Hello, my name is Nasia and this fluffy Orange Cake is made with FRESH orange juice. The frosting is a combination of SWEET cream butter, CREAM cheese, powdered SUGAR, and orange zest. You can completely cover ME with frosting for a traditional cake, but if you love the look of a NAKED cake, just do a nice “crumb coat” on ME the NIGHT before. This makes a BEAUTIFUL orange cake. To make this Orange Cake EXTRA SPECIAL, you can use BLOOD orange juice.

Idea: Nasia Kelepeshi
Performer: Nasia Kelepeshi
Cover photo: Alexandros Kelepeshis

DUET DO IT / Από – δόμηση

by Demetra Kallitsi and Nektarios Rodosthenous

Free entrance!

Date: Sunday, 9^th of June 2019

Place: DANCEHOUSE LEFKOSIA

25 Parthenonos Street, Ayios Andreas , AGORA ( the old Market Hall ) AYIOS ANDREAS

Tel: 00 357 22 780 960/ email: dancehouselefkosia@gmail.com

Organizer Dance Gate Lefkosia Cyprus (EDN Partner) &

A performance by Demetra Kallitsi (conceptual artist) and Nektarios Rodosthenous (musician) in the framework of ”DUET DO IT”. A performance – the result of one day’s interaction of two creative artists from two different disciplines.

Demetra Kallitsi (born 1989, Nicosia, Cyprus) is a conceptual artist, working in the mediums of performance art, textiles/embroidery and poetry/creative writing. She completed an MA in Fine Arts at The University of Brighton, UK, 2013 and a BA in Visual Arts at the University of Salford, Manchester, UK, 2012. Kallitsi has presented her artwork in solo and collaborative art performances, art exhibitions, short films and theatre plays in Cyprus, Germany, Malta, Italy and the United Kingdom.
In 2017, Kallitsi served as the Financial Manager for PRWeile Studio, Berlin, Germany, in 2014-2016 as the Cultural Officer at ARTos Cultural & Research Foundation, Nicosia, Cyprus and in the year 2013 as the Museum Coordinator for the Loukia & Michael Zampelas Art Museum, Nicosia, Cyprus. Kallitsi is currently a Coordinator for Xarkis Festival and Artists Residency and a Board Member and Organiser for the cultural organisation Xarkis, Nicosia,Cyprus.

Nektarios Rodosthenous σπούδασε μουσικολογία και κλασική σύνθεση όπου και έλαβε BA (Hons) Music και MMus Composition από το πανεπιστήμιο του Λίντς (University of Leeds). Αφού παρέδωσε την διδακτορική του έρευνα στο Μουσικό Θέατρο στη συνέχεια αποφοίτησε από το πανεπιστήμιο της Υόρκης (University of York), τον Ιανουάριο του 2016. Οι πιο πρόσφατες του συνθέσεις περιλαμβάνουν συνεργασίες με τον Θεατρικό Οργανισμό Κύπρου (καλοκαίρι 2014), το φεστιβάλ χορού no_body (DanceHouse, Κύπρος 2014 και 2015), το Moving Silence Festival (Βερολίνο/Κύπρος, 2014-2017), το Young Composers Meeting 2016 (Apeldoorn, Ολλανδία 2016), Mediterranean Bodies (Αθήνα, Παρίσι 2016), το μικρό Φεστιβάλ Αρχαίου Δράματος (Μάιος 2016), το Buffer Fringe Festival (Λευκωσία, 2016) και το φεστιβάλ Αρχαίου Ελληνικού Δράματος (Ιούλιο 2015). Είναι ο καλλιτεχνικός διευθυντής του διαπολιτισμικού σχήματος o/f [or] (τα μέλη του οποίου προέρχονται από Πολωνία, Χονγκ Κόνγκ, Η.Β., Κύπρο και Ελλάδα), του πειραματικού έθνικ ‘Trio NeRo’ (Φέγγαρος 2015, Φεστιβάλ Ξαρκής, Windcraft Festical 2016, Πάφος 2017) και του χορό-μουσικού σχήματος ‘klinisch getestet’. Ακόμη, λειτουργεί σαν σύμβουλος/trustee του διεθνή οργανισμού Conductive Music Project, που είναι βασισμένο στο Λονδίνο, και σαν υπεύθυνος της κυπριακής ομάδας του Erasmus+ KA2 – Creative Teaching and Learning. Σαν μουσικό-παιδαγωγός, ο Νεκτάριος εργάστηκε στο νηπιαγωγικό σταθμό Lions International Clubs με παιδιά 3-5 ετών (2014-15), με το Ίδρυμα Άρτος και το Παιδικό Πανεπιστήμιο ώς εκπαιδευτής μουσικής και ήχου σε παιδιά από 6 εώς 12 ετών (2014-17). Τον 2015 έλαβε μέρος στο διεθνές φεστιβάλ Ostrava Days 2015 όπου και διδάχθηκε από τους Alvin Lucier, Christian Wolff, Phill Niblock, Peter Ablinger, George Lewis, Rolf Riehm, and Richard Ayres. Τον Φεβρουάριο του 2016 ήταν ένας από τους 16 συνθέτες που επιλέγηκαν για το Young Composers Meeting στο Apeldoorn της Ολλανδίας. Από το 2015, είναι επιστημονικός συνεργάτης και διδάσκει Μουσική Τεχνολογία στην Εκπαίδευση (ΜΑ) στο Ευρωπαϊκό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου. Σαν συγγραφέας έχει γράψει ποιήματα που έχουν εκδοθεί στην εφημερίδα Φιλελεύθερος, στα περιοδικά Avant Garde, το περιοδικό Cadences, το περιοδικό Ακτή, Νέα Εποχή, και στον ιστότοπο ποίησης poiein.gr. Το πρώτο του θεατρικό έργο επιλέχθηκε να παρουσιαστεί από τον Θεατρικό Οργανισμό Κύπρου τον Μάρτιο του 2018.

DUET DO IT / SYN-PRAXIS (ΣΥΜΠΡΑΞΗ)

by Eva Stavrou and Belinda Papavasileiou

Free entrance!

Date: Sunday, 31^st March 2019

Place: DANCEHOUSE LEFKOSIA

25 Parthenonos Street, Ayios Andreas , AGORA ( the old Market Hall ) AYIOS ANDREAS

Tel: 00 357 22 780 960/ email: dancehouselefkosia@gmail.com

ORGANIZER: Dance Gate Lefkosia Cyprus (EDN Partner) & Dancehouse Lefkosia

A performance by Eva Stavrou (mucisian-performer) and Belinda Papavasileiou (dancer, choreographer) in the framework of ”DUET DO IT”. A performance – the result of one day’s interaction of two creative artists from two different disciplines.

Belinda Papavasileiou  is a cypriot dance artist, based in the UK since 2012 where she works across the different roles of dancer, maker and teacher. Her practice draws from improvisation, contact improvisation, somatic movement practices, experiential anatomy, butoh, choreography, site responsive performance as well as drawing and writing. Belinda has performed for: Rosemary Lee, Marie Gabrielle Rotie, Josiah McElhenny, Bittersuite, Glenna Batson, Susan Sentler, and others. Her own work has been presented in: Bonnie Bird theatre at Laban, Central St. Martins, Abeerance, OT301 cultural center in Amsterdam, TRIBE15 in London, Brighton Fringe festival and ONCA gallery in Brighton. Belinda trained in contemporary dance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, holds an MA in Inclusive Arts practice from the University of Brighton and is currently in Helen Poynor’s Walk of Life training.

Eva Stavrou graduated in 2009 with distinction from the Music School of Nicosia, and then progressed to higher education at the Universite Lumiere Lyon 2 and at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Lyon. She continued her studies at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels receiving a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Flute and Piccolo. Eva has taken part in various orchestras and chamber music groups. Some of her participations include the Sotiropoulos Camerata, the Youth Orchestra of Lyon, the orchestra of Université Lumière Lyon 2 and the orchestra of the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. A special interest in contemporary music has led her to work with young composers. She participated in residencies such as the Escape Art Lab in Romania and in Erasmus+ programs in Portugal and Cyprus. Since September 2017, Eva Stavrou lives and works as a flute teacher in Cyprus. She currently teaches at the Cyprus Music Schools, Windcraft Music Centre and at the Strovolos Municipality Open School.