“JUNE JULY” – DANCE PERFORMANCE BY ELEONORA SIARAVA

Why did I come in here again; ‘Here’, Richard McGuire

JUNE JULY is a cosmology of the Now, of our microcosm and the macrocosm, drawing references from sci-fi and retrofuturism. A performance about nostalgia, anticipation and time, unfolding through the creation of choreographic haikus, condensed, fleeting, fragmentary impressions. It takes its initial inspiration from the groundbreaking graphic novel/comic Here (2014) by Richard McGuire. In that, the same location, a corner of a room, is depicted across multiple moments in time, from thousands of years of past into the future. The piece invites us into a choreographic liminal space, a zone of reminiscence and anticipation, an undefinable feeling that connects the familiar with the unknown, everyday glimpses with imaginary futures. How do we inhabit -literally and metaphorically- places of personal and collective nostalgia? Of intimacy and vastness? How can the ephemerality of the natural world and human nature unfold in parallel with cosmic time and the time of everyday life? What remains if we “blow this cosmic dust”? Maybe a trace of a Japanese hip-hop song is heard from the depths as a background on a spring afternoon, or somewhere on a night screen, the first scenes of 2001: A Space Odyssey playing. The performance weaves a narrative of an imaginary story without end, containing traces and memories. It expands and self-ignites to create something new, an alchemy of nostalgia, memory, surrealism and fantasy. In the context of an expanded choreography, JUNE JULY becomes a living hybrid landscape of bodies, movements, sounds, objects, voices, words, microphones, neon signs, screens, and minimalist digital elements. They are activated and evaporate, creating an open composition within a multi-layered universe.

With the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of Greece With the support of International Theatre Institute – German Centre and Motion Bank Project, in the framework of an artistic residency program, Berlin, 2024

Concept, Choreography, Art Direction: Eleonora Siarava
Performance, co-development of movement material: Maria Vourou, Mairi Giannoula, Sofia Pouchtou
Texts, lyrics: Eleonora Siarava
Sound Design: Aliki Leftherioti
Media Design: Eratw Tzavara
Set: Sofia Theodoraki, Adonis Douroudis
Lighting Design: Tasos Palaioroutas, Evita Skrimizea
Costumes: Eirini Georgakila
Video Αrt: Antigoni Iliadi
Press Relations: True Colours Comms
Production: Per_Dance Choreographic Research Platform

PLYFA, Athens
23-26 April 2026
Premiere 23-25 April 21.00 | 26 April 19.00
Duration: 45 minutes

Tickets: https://www.more.com/gr-el/tickets/dance/junejuly

*Eleonora Siarava is a dance ARTWORKS Fellow