“THE GRAVITY BETWEEN US” ΑΝD “BURST FORTH” BY ANGELOS PAPADOPOULOS & ELPINIKI SARIPANIDOU

Angelos Papadopoulos and Elpiniki Saripanidou present their works in a double bill!

The Gravity Between Us & Burst Forth

– Thursday 22nd of June at 21.00
– Friday 23rd of June at 21.00
– Saturday 24th of June at 21.00

M54/54 Menandrou Street, Athens, Greece (entrance from the side, go down the alley)

The Gravity Between Us
‘The Gravity Between Us’ is a choreographic work for 2 performers. The piece has been created to explore the human desire to connect and looks at the complexity of what individuals do to see, hear and understand them. In this work, the dancers talk before they begin to dance, creating various contexts for reading their dance. Creative research and development began by exploring how gaze and the desire for reciprocity act as an initial catalyst for connection or rejection. Desire can be in one moment highly focused and singular to its goal and then become distracted, frustrated and re-motivated to find another target for its focus. This constant state of desire is often manifested through different ways of seeing and perceiving.

With the support of the Duncan Dance Research Center.
‘The Gravity Between Us’ has been presented at the Act International Festival for Emerging Performing Artists 2022, after Angelos Papadopoulos was awarded the Act Residency Award 2021 for his first choreographic duet presented at the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum.

Conception-choreography: Angelos Papadopoulos
Interpretation-co-creation: Danae Pazirgiannidi, Thanos Ragousis
Music: ECATI
Lighting design: Tzanos Mazis
Make-up: Emmanuel Kamakaris
Photography: Dimitra Tzanou
Acknowledgements: Sotiria Koutsopetrou, Steve Purcell and Elsa Siskou for their external look.

Burst Forth

A choreographic work for 1 performer. Burst Forth presents a meteoric space between inertia and action, placing a creature at the difficult point of transition.
Switched-on electrical appliances, animals grunting, objects breaking and disintegrating, harsh and sudden noises are sonicly and visually stimulating a somatic approach to feelings of discomfort, embarrassment and confusion. The performance space is treated as a dashboard with individual spaces that function as stages of transformation of the creature’s emotional state, forcing it into a process of displacement and self-confrontation. Burst Forth is an attempt to manage the constant mood shifts, from unbearable stagnation to the desire for action; A state in which the ultimate outburst seems necessary, even if it implies collapse.

Credits:
Conception-performance: Elpiniki Saripanidou
Sound design : Giorgos Stavridis , Giorgos Stenos-Frantzios, Elpiniki Saripanidou
Choreographer’s assistant: Alexandros Laskaratos
Prop design: Dionysis Kavallieratos
Lighting design: Tzanos Mazis
Photography: George Athanasiou, Dimitra Tzanou
poster design: George Athanasiou
Acknowledgements: Christina Skoutela, Pagona Mpoulmpasakou, Sophia-Danae Vorvila

The Gravity Between Us & Burst Forth
Angelos Papadopoulos & Elpiniki Saripanidou

– Thursday 22nd of June at 21.00
– Friday 23rd of June at 21.00
– Saturday 24th of June at 21.0

Entrance at the box office 12 €
The venue does not have POS.

Seat reservation is required online at the following links:
Thursday 22nd of June at 21.00
https://fienta.com/it-s-a-double-bill-angelos-elpiniki…
Friday 23rd of June at 21.00
https://fienta.com/it-s-a-double-bill-angelos-elpiniki…
Saturday 24th of June at 21.00
https://fienta.com/it-s-a-double-bill-angelos-elpiniki…

*Angelos Papadopoulos is SNF ARTWORKS Dance Fellow (2020)