World Dance Day 2015

On the occasion of the World Day of Dance, which is on the 29th of April, Dancehouse Lefkosia, in collaboration with the Cyprus New Movement of dance groups, dancers and choreographers is organizing celebrations for the World Dance Day on the 3rd of May at the Dancehouse Lefkosia.

The event will include a presentation of the residencies of the Dancehouse Lefkosia, performance by the Lefkosia Youth Ballet and presentation of dance groups through the Visibility Program of the Cyprus New Movement.

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Youth Inspirations 3
Lefkosia Youth Ballet

Lefkosia Youth Ballet presents ‘Youth Inspirations 3’: -pieces choreographed by the students

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Cyprus New Movement of Dance Groups, Dancers and Choreographers
Visibility Program

Sans Raison
Chorotheatro Omada Pende

The piece "Sans Raison" was presented at the Cyprus Dance Platform 2014.

“ …And even as he, who, with distressful breath,
Forth issued from the sea upon the shore,
Turns to the water perilous and gazes;
So did my soul, that still was fleeing onward,
Turn itself back to re-behold the pass
Which never yet a living person left….”
Literature Network, Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto I.

Choreography/performance: Chloe Melidou
Music composition, arrangements, performance: Nicolas Tryphonos
Costume: Atelier Pantelis

Chorotheatro Omada Pende
[email protected]

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My story
Amfidromo Chorotheatro

Α dance story dedicated to the life of Souveneeta Jaysinghe. Away from her country, an immigrant for 25 years. She still supports financially her ‘unknown’ family feeling homesick of a ‘motherland’ which is only a thought. Ηer ‘motherland’ should actually be the land where her life and her truth is. Her motherland is now the one she is obliged to serve.

Choreography – Elena Christodoulidou
Dancer – Viky Kalla
Music –Demetris Zavros
Song/text – Souveneeta Jaysinghe
Costumes – Lakis Yenethlis

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Standstill
Chorotheatro Omada Pende

The cliff is rising "..." The landscape is falling. Falling upwards "..." You had one life only but it was trampled by your fear of being hurt «...»
I am still, stillness is me. Only the cliff is rising. Upwards. To the Skies?

Pavlos Matesis, Ili Dasous, Gia Ora Anagkis, page.95, Editions Kastaniotis, Athens 2000.

Choreography: Roula Kleovoulou in collaboration with the dancers
Dancers: Arianna Markoulides, Milena Ugren Koulas
Dramaturge: Chloe Melidou
Sound editing: C.C. Soundscape Studios
Costumes: Ase Lazarou

Chorotheatro Omada Pende
E-mail: [email protected]

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The soul’s dilemma
Athena Georgiou
(Dance residencies/ Dancehouse Lefkosia March-April 2015)

The choreography explores the idea of death, and in particular of sudden death, at the moment the soul separates from the body. It is based on a study of philosophical and ethnographic theories related to the separation of the soul from the body, mainly the theories of ancient philosophers Plato and Socrates, and the philosophy of Hinduism. These theories refer to the relationship of body and soul as one of a prisoner and a captive, and present the journey of the soul after the event of death until it is released from the material world, is purified, and gains immortality.
The body-soul relationship could be considered as one of love, where eros symbolizes the desire for more life and death its dissolution.

'The soul has to cross mountains and seas and rivers, sometimes over hanging bridges and sometimes with vigourless ships, or it has to descend through caves, and take decisions at unfamiliar crossroads, drifting in darkness and diversions, climbing or descending cliffs, discerning passages through chaotic labyrinths, until it reaches the land of souls.'

Panayis Lekatsas

Choreography/Dramaturgy: Athina Georgiou in collaboration with Styliani Charalambous
Dancers/Performers: Styliani Charalambous, Athina Georgiou
Video Art: Anna Tsiarta in collaboration with the choreographer
Music: Excerpts from compositions of Arvo Pärt, Iannis Xenakis, and Phillip Glass

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Turn off lights when leaving
Panayiotis Tofi
(Dance residencies/ Dancehouse Lefkosia March-April 2015)

In the sense that the phenomenon of memory is contingent on what is forgotten or absent, repetition and the double, matter and memory will rehearse the correlations among trauma, death, and the unconscious, between the visible and the invisible, the past and the present. A choreographic fragment based on ghostly theatricality and Freud’s uncanny.

Concept/Choreography/Creation: Panayiotis Tofi
Performers: Joanna Kordatou, Aneesha Michael, Alexia Nicolaou, Panayiotis Tofi
Sound: Ben Frost, Eric Holm, Henry Purcell
Photography, Costume assistant: Theodora Iacovou