11th Contemporary Dance Platform

Friday 11 March
20:30

Duet
Asomates Dynamis
Duration: 17'

Concept/Choreography: Machi Dimitriadou-Lindahl
Music: Ludwig Van Beethoven, Kreutzer Sonata (Adagio sostenuto-Presto)
Image design: Vicky Marinou
Dancers: Elena Chatzidaki, Loizos Konstantinou

Duet - Kreutzer sonata
The well-known sonata by Beethoven inspired Tolstoy to write a short novel about love, obsession, and the destructive passion of jealousy. The energy of a man and a woman as they meet in a duet, the way they assume roles, the way they formulate their movements, how they listen and respond, lose and gain control in their effort to remain the object of each other's desire, becomes a trip of seduction and a ruthless power game. Love becomes the teacher on a path to self knowledge. It leads them to their limits in states they never imagined they would arrive at, and they eventually see love as a wise man sitting on the other side of their passion, waiting for them ...to cross over and see their own self and the beloved one face to face.
Duet is a part of a full length piece, Kreutzer Sonata, which Asomates Dynameis is going to present the Fall of 2011.

Snap
Nothing to Declare
Duration: 12'

Concept/Direction/Choreography: Alexis Vassiliou
In collaboration with Arianna Marcoulides and Eleana Alexandrou
Performed by: Arianna Marcoulides and Eleana Alexandrou
Music advisor/Sound designer: Panos Bartzis
Picture: Suzana Phiala
Picture Post-Production: Artemis Psathas

Grown-Up
Vanessa Haska
Duration: 10'

Choreographer: Vanessa Haska
Dancers: Victoria Aristeidou, Anna Genethliou
Music arranged and edited by Marina Varnava
Photography: Menelaos Papageorgis

Grown-Up
When I was a child I was in a hurry to grow up, and here I am... first wrinkles, signs of grey hair...I'm not pure anymore, nor am I innocent.... I feel slower, heavier, smaller....ok, maybe and a little bit wiser!
Notes: I would like to thank my dancers for their hard work and Myria Stylianou for all her help.

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aRtittude
Duration: 10'

Choreography: Evi Panayiotou in collaboration with the performers
Performers: Nicole Constantinou, Stefani Makri
Text: Maria Ioannou
Artistic Advisor: Marina Makri

We would like to thank our 16 friends that offered their help, by taking part in the project.

Fade to grey
AELION Contemporary Dance Group
Duration: 25'

Concept/Choreography: Alexia Perdikaki
Costume Designer: Constantina Andreou
Dancers: Fotini Perdikaki, Antonis Antoniou
Photography: Pampos Charalampidis

Saturday 12 March
20:30

Too soon… for the birds
Echo Arts
Duration: 20'

Director/Choreographer: Arianna Economou
Dramaturge Advisor: Pantelis Georghiou
Performers: Fotis Nicolaou, Demmie Da Costa
Visual Artists: Chrisanthy Christoforou, Aggela Chimona
Visual Direction & Video: Achim Wieland
Costume: Kyriaki Kosta
Music: Christos Kyriakoullis
Lighting: Panagiotis Manousis

Trailer
Antonis Antoniou
Duration: 10'

Choreography: Antonis Antoniou in cooperation with MRA Dance Company
Dancers: Mary-Fofi Anestou, Rialena Nikodemou, Antonis Antoniou
Music: MRA Dance Company
Costume Designer: Constantina Andreou
Image: project of Gabriel Pagonis

Trailer
The play is taking place at the exact moment where everyone after an intense emotional situation finds himself in a close to the edge situation where it separates the impact from the recall.

Fragments
Elsa Souroula
Duration: 10'

Dancers: Angelica Georghiades, Penelope Georgiadou, Elsa Souroulla, Korina Kontaxaki
Actres: Korina Kontaxaki
Technical support/Lighting: Eleni Cosma
Sound design: Constantinos Lemesios
Poems: Miranta Lambraki

After years,
You should know,
The confession of why
Will escape from an old chest.
When these moments are spoken,
My eyes are always shut.

Shelf Life
Ariana Markoulidou
Duration: 10'

Concept and Concept Development: Eva Korae, Arianna Marcoulides
Choreography/Performance: Arianna Marcoulides
Set Design/Graphic Design: Eva Korae
Costume Design: Christina Georgiou
Consultant: Michalis Georgiou
Thanks to: Eleana Alexandrou, Mariza and Natalie Peslika, Melios Agathangelou

Text: "Do you feel like you've been left on the shelf?"

Linear Writing Drawing Β'
Omada Pente Dance theatre
Duration: 20'

Choreography: Chloe Melidou
Performers: Chloe Melidou, Roula Kleovoulou
Light Design: Panayiotis Manousis
Costumes: Atelier Pandelis
Scenery: Elena Kotasvili
Music recording-editing: Christos Kyriakides, Blue Monk Studio
Text: Fragments of the traditional fairy tale "The King who had three sons" (from Traditional...Thrace Aeaieo Kipros, KY.KE.M 2004)
Music: Drumrolls (the Philharmonic orchestra of the Municipality of Limassol), Cyprus Traditional music (from the collection "Cyprus-popular music" Peloponnesian folklore foundation)
Photography: Vasilis Doritis
Special thanks to: Vassilis Doritis, Tasos Zachariou, Elena Kotasvili, Michalis Karakatsanis, "The Philarmoniki" Orchestra of the Municipality of Limassol.

Through the tales, I'm trying to spot on the repetitive archetypal motives in narration as part of our tradition, and parallelize with repetition of kinisiological motifs in traditional dance, as well as repetitive motifs in traditional music. Based on traditional patterns I present a contemporary piece...and yes, maybe the witches and the dark forest have given their place to extraterrestrial creatures and moonscapes...but I will insist on the old and well known Dragon.
Chloe Melidou.

Sunday 13 March
20:30

States 0-12
Νoema Dance Works
Duration: 15'

Concept/Choreography: Alexandra Waierstall
Performers/Contributors: Evangelia Randou, Jonathan Pranlas, Antonis Antoniou, Fotis Nikolaou
Visual Concept: Marianna Christofides
Music: Marios Takoushis
Costumes: Kyriaki Costa, Alexandra Waierstall
Lights: Panayiotis Manousis

"State zero to twelve" is part of a choreographic research that begun in 2006 titled "A Human Study" which focuses on creating brief choreographic journals that lead sometimes to full evening pieces. "State zero to twelve" is the fifth study created after Affect, Between, Terminus and Present Tense and focuses on the environment, its affect and embodiment.

Dice
Loizos Constantinou
Duration: 10'

Idea/Choreography: Loizos Constantinou
Music: Fight club, The dust brothers
Photo editing: Vicky Marinou
Dancers: Paul Blackman, Loizos Constantinou

Dice
Cubes rain, heavy bricks that hit deep inside. Big words are numbers, each number and a promise. Cube-boxes with screens, sit a series of ties, struggling with a view to poison your mind. Dice thrown pawns to make. The landscape, a game that starts pure and violent ends. Ages wearing the tie and put a new one. He drowned stays the same. Remember. Verbal abuse is just as scary with the physical.

No Regrets
SPEIRA ART
Duration: 16'

Choreographer: Marina Kyriakidou
Dramatist: Marinos Anogyriatis
Dancers: Mayia Mina, Marianna Christou, Marina Kyriakidou
Actors: Marina Mandri, Marinos Anogyriatis

Over Under
Fouli Stylianidou
Duration: 13'

Choreography: Vertebra Dance-Collective
Dancers: Fouli Stylianidou, Marina Mazaraki, Fivos Salahas
Costumes: Filitsa Stylianidou
Scenery: Stelios Tillyris
Text: Nikos Paschidis
Videomaker/Edit: Fivos Salahas

Over Under
An employee in a company. A mother within a family. A man who walks his dog. These are common examples of the various roles we impersonate in our everyday life. But, how do these different personae interact when the exercise of power changes hands and takes different forms? What happens when the oppressed becomes the oppressor?
Under different circumstances the boundaries of control seem to blur, yet are we still left with a freedom of choice? Can we really resist? Abuse of power: do we tolerate it or is there a breaking point? In a similar way, how do we behave when it is our turn to exercise power?
This is a chain reaction of consequences, resulting from the prevalent notion of power and control which changes hands, takes different shapes and (re)defines whole societies.

Linear Regression
Alexandros Michael
Duration: 20'

Choreography: Alexandros Michael
Dancers: Alexia Nicolaou, Fotini Perdikaki, Mayia Mina, Dara Milovanovic-Michael, Julia Brendle, Alexia Perdikaki

Linear Regression
In statistics, linear regression is an approach to modeling the relationship between a scalar variable Y and one or more variables denoted X. In linear regression, data is modeled using linear functions, and unknown model parameters are estimated from the data. Such models are called linear models. Most commonly, linear regression refers to a model in which the conditional mean of Y given the value of X is an affine function of X. Less commonly, linear regression could refer to a model in which the median, or some other quantile of the conditional distribution of y given X is expressed as a linear function of X. Like all forms of regression analysis, linear regression focuses on the conditional probability distribution of Y given X, rather than on the joint probability distribution of Y and X, which is the domain of multivariate analysis.
In choreographic terms the aim of this study was to determine the probability of a correlation between two variables: movement phrases and emotionality. Six participants undertook a choreographic process of learning specific demonstrated movement phrases based in contemporary dance and structured in a non randomized order. Three possible outcomes predicted were:
A: Emotionality transmitted to audience through personal expression and dynamic changes in musicality of individual dancer.
B: Emotionality transmitted to audience through overall structure of the piece (beginning, middle, end, climax,) or known as "choreographic intent".
C: No emotional response form audience (excitement, empathic feelings of struggle and liberation, general aesthetic appreciation) denoted by weak/short applause.