BARE DANCΕS

BARE DANCΕS

BARE dances is back for two more performances in April.

This is a solo.

Out of urgency. About making a refuge to fold into or folding into this place as if it is a refuge.

About reaching out to the movements and ways of other forms of existences.

To pull the idea of inside apart.

A dancing myself bare or to bare dance.

BARE emerges from carefully considered/choreographed situations I embedded myself in over the last months: Tact. Sea. Forest. Unhoused. Originally conceived out of urgency to find refuge in sustained awareness, BARE now stretches beyond its bounds. The solo bears resonance as the experiences re-organize and transduce. As this dance rises, so does a new mind, open to changing the way I move, the way I move to think.

"The space of experience is really, literally, physically a topological hyperspace οf transformation" B. Massumi

PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

Date: 13 & 14 Απριλίου 2024
Time: 21.00
Duration: 50 minutes
Venue: M54, Menandrou 54, Athens, Greece
Tickets: 10€ regular, 8€ reduced (unemployed, student, disabled)

PERFORMANCE IDENTITY

Research/Choreography/Performance: Vitoria Kotsalou
 
Field 1: Drums
Drums field support & Music composition: Vassilis Mantzoukis
 
Field 2: The forest north of Μontreal, Canada, which hosts the 3e project by Erin Manning and Brian Massumi
Forest field support & support in research and artistic practice: Erin Manning
 
Field 3: The sea in Hydra, in Agios Dimitrios Evia, in Vlychada Rechia, in Trachila of Mani
 
Field 4: Homeless people in the area of Menandrou, Thiseio, Piraeus, Keramikos-Athens
Homeless field Support & Text Editing: George Frintzilas
 
Video design: Chrysanthi Badeka
 
Lighting design: Maria Athanasopoulou
 
Support during the process of synthesis: Aris Papadopoulos, George Frintzilas, Erin Manning,  Michael Klien, Mariela Nestora, Agni Papadeli Rossetou, Iris Nikolaou
 
Support in dramaturgy in the final process of the presentation: Christos Polymenakos
 
Costume Design Support: Ilianna Skoulakis
 
Communications/Production Assistant: Fay Ioannidou
 
Sketches: Vitoria Kotsalou
 
Underwater photography: Yiannis Issaris

Photography: Myrto Apostolidou
 

Production Management: RICE MAKE
 
 
UNDERWATER VIDEO:
 
Conception, Choreography, Performance: Vitoria Kotsalou
 
Direction, Underwater Camera Assistant, Editing: Chrysanthi Badeka
 
Underwater cinematography, Colouring: Yiannis Issaris
 
Many thanks to Lena Frintzila, Maria Tsolka and Thanos Oikonomopoulos for their support.
 
ΒARE dances premiered in November 2023 at M54.
 
The project BARE is realised with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and Sports and with the generous support of the 3e project.