Dance Throughout the Year

Dance Throughout the Year aims to adjoin the Cyprus Contemporary Dance Platform by enriching the festival’s programme with works that were presented during 2016 in Cyprus and therefore support and promote, alongside with the Platform, the artistic work of the creators.

Free entrance

Friday 03/03/2017

20:00 Into the stillness 25’
Chorotheatro Omada Pende

The performance will take place at Andrea Drousioti street (in front of Rialto theatre)

Choreographer: Roula Kleovoulou
Performers: Alexia Perdikaki, Emily Papaloizou, Milena Ugren Koulas, Rania Glymitsa
Photographer: Pavlos Vryonides

My latest piece “Into the stillness” was a progression from a previous piece “Standstill” where my research was to find the movement in stillness and come to question in the end if stillness can actually create calmness or tension. In the piece “Into the stillness” I went a step further and asked the dancers to cross a bridge in a very slow and steady pace hoping to find stillness (calmness) when reaching their destination, after actually crossing
the bridge. My travelers all crossed the bridge in their own unique way, but they all reached their stillness (calmness) in the end. We all have our bridges to cross, everyone’s journey is different, but I believe we all want to find that stillness... The piece you will see tonight will not be shown on the bridge, but in the streets of Limassol, my travelers will make their journey amongst cars and people and commotion, let’s hope it will be a good one... This piece was created in July 2016 for the site specific Summer Dance Festival of Nea Kinisi.

Chorotheatro Omada Pende was founded in 1999. Eighteen years after its foundation, it has presented 34 projects, with participations in Cyprus Dance Platform, in the Summer dance festival, in the European dance festival, and independent productions. Some projects of the group have been presented in London and Athens. Chorotheatro Omada Pende actively participates in coordinated actions with other groups, aiming at the establishment of institutions that will promote and develop the art of dance in Cyprus. Chorotheatro Omada Pende is one of the founding members of the Dance House Lemesos (2007) and of New Movement of Dance Companies, Dancers and Choreographers of Cyprus. (2004). Main artists and choreographers of the group since its foundation are Roula Kleovoulou and Chloe Melidou.

Saturday 04/03/2017

18:30 Sunday of Life 20’
Julia Anna Brendle

Concept/Choreography/Performance: Julia Brendle
Special thanks to Maria Kyriakou, Andri Panayiotou and Marios Konstantinou outside eye(s) and dramaturgical advice.

A reconstruction of a piece originally set in a basketball field, revisited in the space of the dance house. Are the original questions still relevant and how does the new space impact on the choreography itself and the issues the work addresses.
In both cases a space where the mind gives room to the body to express itself, where bodies meet in order to achieve mutual goals, in which we feel free, in which we reach the limits of our physicality. How much freedom do we really allow within the frame of ourselves and this space? And how many limits are added, through the patterns that we create in order to achieve the goals we set? Questions set the rules of this game, with the goal being to explore the notions of personal freedom, of choice and the limits we set to our own selves.

Julia Brendle studied at the Palucca-School and at Codarts University/Rotterdam (BA). She graduated from the FU Berlin with an MA in Dance Studies. She gained her professional experience with different international choreographers and companies. Since 2010 she lives and works in Cyprus and has been part of the Cypriot dance scene ever since, working with various Cypriot choreographers. Julia has been creating her own choreographic works since 2011 which have been presented in international theaters and festivals. She has participated in several theater productions as a choreographer and movement coach for actors. Since 2010 she is a part time lecturer for dance and dance theory at the University of Nicosia.

19:00 Coralia 7'
Panos Malactos

Choreographer/Dancer: Panos Malactos
Music: Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten- Arvo Part

Coralia, that's her name. The definition of a fighter, a hero, a true mother, and she is here. Right in front of you.

Panos was born in Limassol in 1994 and started dancing at the Limassol Municipal Dance Centre. He then moved to London to study at Bird College where he received the "Dance and Drama Award". Panos decided to continue his training at the Rambert School where he got his "BA Degree in Ballet and Contemporary Dance” and worked with choreographers such as Mark Baldwin, Kerry Nicholls and others. Panos choreography works where performed at the Sadler’s Wells, Royal Opera House and Central Saint Martins Platform Theatre. He choreographed and performed his piece “Gypsy Souls" for “Mr Wonderful” a celebration of Jonathan Ollivier’s Life in Dance at Sadler’s Wells, a show under the artistic direction of Matthew Bourne. Since August 2016 Panos works as a dancer with “Fresco Dance Company” in Israel.

19:15 Red VelVet 25'
Aneesha Michael

Choreographer: Aneesha Michael
Performers: Aneesha Michael and Raul Tigre
Mentor: Bush Hartshorn
Music: Gabriel Fauré- Elegie, Scott Walker- The Electrician, Daft Punk- Get Lucky, Brian Eno and Harold Budd- Against the Sky
Photographer: Maria Mari Neophytou

A theatrical duet for a woman and a red velvet curtain. She will embody orbits of the human experience. How to find balance exploring the boundaries of our existence. The extremes of expanding ourselves by glorifying our social positions to the other extreme of withdrawing into our shell and being perceived as zero, nothing, nada. It is the journeys between these extremes that lead to moments of realization. However, beware, we trick ourselves by confusing dreams with reality. Even easier in our twenty first century online world, where reality and virtual reality collide.

Αneesha Michael graduated from the prοfessional school of dance Rallou Manou-Athens in 2012. Since then, she has collaborated with choreographers & Theatre Directors as a performer and dancer in Athens and Cyprus. Her current investigations are into; how movement relates to the anatomy of the body by experimenting with objects and how they relate to her presence as a performer. In 2014 she produced her first work 'Quest', a naked body on a white sculpture. In 2015 she collaborated with the musician Dimitri Spyrou presenting the work 'Vente Ambulante'. Then in 2016 she presented the work 'Red VelVet', and this time a duet,collaborating with a large red velvet theatre curtain.

Sunday 05/03/2017

11:00-13:00 Upcoming move
Round table discussion

18:30 In Another’s Shoes : #ifeeljustlikeachild 30΄
Arianna Marcoulides

Performer: Arianna Marcoulides
Sound Design: Panos Bartzis
Special thanks to Eleana Alexandrou

Τhe clothing choices we make speak a lot about ourselves, if you know how to read in between the seams. Arianna and Panos take another look at the piece 'In Another's Shoes' presented last year at Dance House Lemesos for Dance Throughout the Year 2016. Revisiting a theme that has been part of previous works -that of vibrations- and merging it with the current themes of clothes and identity, movements and sounds, improvisation and structure, the piece's current version was first presented under the Moving the New programme of Dance House Lemesos in December 2016.
A piece created with the support of the Choreographic Residency Programme 2015 Moving the New at Dance House Lemesos.

Arianna Marcoulides has been creating her own work since 2009, always in close collaboration with people that inspire her and stimulate curiosity. She has collaborated with Panos Bartzis on her last three pieces, "Along the Way... Forgotten" (2014), "Stomach Rumblings" and "In Another’s Shoes".

19:00 For George 15’
Milena Ugren Koulas

Choreography/Improvisation: Milena Ugren Koulas
Music: 9 Crimes-Damien Rice

"For George” is a little dance dedicated to my husband George Koulas. It came as a reaction to our ongoing collaboration and life together and also as a reaction to our previous piece “Happiness”.

Dancer/choreographer Milena Ugren Koulas and musician George Koulas have been collaborating for the last 11 years. Both of them graduated from Codarts academy in Rotterdam-The Netherlands. They presented their work in different venues in Cyprus and abroad (Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland, Turkey, Italy, Greece, Sweden, Germany, France, Serbia, Spain, Luxembourg).
www.ugrenkoulas.com

22:30 Closing Party

Saturday 04/03/2017 and Sunday 05/03/2016

17:00-20:00 In a Dark Time
Arianna Economou
Monument in Heroes square.

In the framework of the project Blast from the Past: A retrospective to the future. Curated by Blast collective.

Concept/Choreography/Performance: Arianna Economou

In this newly proposed version of her work IN A DARK TIME (2002), Arianna Economou will present a durational dance performance on some of the alchemical symbolism and stages of the journey of the soul toward the Self (Calcinatio, Mortificatio, Solutio).

Through the deconstruction of the already existing material (poetry, visual installation and sound), the performance will carry a ritualistic character where the audience will be free to come and go and witness the artist’s process. The performer in this process -with axis the thinking body and its movement- will open this dialogue toward the Self and the audience, trying a new practice that relies on the sharing of the creative process and the dynamics of the ongoing shifts between unconscious and conscious,visible and invisible.

Arianna Economou is a pioneer dance artist and interactive artist, activist in the community, founder of Echo Arts Living Arts Centre (1996). She has been collaborating with many local and international artists in numerous creative inter-disciplinary and bi-communal projects. Arianna has been creating solo & group dance works and she is engaged in various projects on the application of dance in the community. Arianna has presented her own dance works in dance and theatre festivals in England, Germany, Greece, Holland, Sweden, Armenia, Portugal and Egypt. Arianna Economou has been presenting her own creative work on a regular basis at the Cyprus Dance Platform, at the Summer Dance Festival of Nea Kinisi and more recently at the "Terpshichore" dance research and development programme of the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture. This year with Echo Arts and her collaborators she is presenting an audio-visual installation of the inter-generational bi-communal project "Far off Lands" ( 28 Jan - 28 Feb 2017) and "Trails of Memories" a dance performance accompanied with an archival space/installation ,at the Municipal Gallery of Pafos, taking place within the Terpsichore programme 2017 (15 Oct - 12 Nov 2017) in the frame of the International Festival/ European Capital of Culture Pafos2017. Arianna Economou is the director of Dance Gate Lefkosia Cyprus and president on the governing board of Dancehouse Lefkosia. She is the receiver of the The Tefkros Anthias and Theodosis Pieridis Award (2005).
www.echoarts.info

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Sponsor: Ministry of Education and Culture-Cultural services