Dance waves
A versatile contemporary dance festival inviting international artists and supporting the work of Cyprys-based choreographers.
Ichor // The Blood of Gods
A performance with original text and choreography, and a mountain, that is said to hold rivers with the blood of the gods.
Buffer Fringe Performing Art Festival 2020
Buffer Fringe is an annual festival with a mission for peacebuilding and social justice, organized by Home for Cooperation in Nicosia, both sides. In 2020, because of the pandemic restrictions, the festival was restricted to one theatre.
Is it true that you will always wait for me?
A city, a community, a war, a ghetto, a displacement, a farewell, a promise for an uncertain meeting after the return to a place that may no longer exist. A project which is a tribute to the citizens of emptied cities. At night the breeze brings their voices and songs to the neighbourhoods where they once lived.
Is it true that you will always wait for me? – Rehearsals
The magic moment of rehearsals. Is it true that you will always wait for me? when the performance was still to be mounted.
Crossing 24/31: I always confuse south to north, north to south
Artists from across the island met in one exhibition, moving a further step towards a unique Cypriot identity and challenging existing nationalist narratives.
No Body / At a Distance
Despite the challenging restrictions the pandemic has created, the work of many young artists is presented. For this...
Maria Farrar
Brecht tries to take us away from the primary and instinctive reaction to the issue of paedophilia. He suggests us to approach the mother–killer man, through sensitivity, understanding and humanity.
Fief*
The artist Lenia Georgiou leaded Fief, a group performance in the only place where Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots can meet, see each other, talk to each other, perform together.
The strange sound of silence
In the first summer of the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic, the Republic of Cyprus closed de facto the access to and from the North of the island, despite they recognise the people living there as their citizens and the very low spread of the virus in that permanently isolated world.
Artists in Progress 2020
By establishing the body’s presence within the space and time of the spectator as the workshop’s central axis, participants came in conversation with the image, the object and the relational connections that are produced, in order to expand their mode of practice into a new vocabulary of tools, values and notions provided by the field of performance art.
Aerologies
With numb bodies and uncertain looks, we discovered new parts of ourselves, we looked for new ways to create. By exchanging conventional, expected bodily moments, recognizing and breaking the conveniences of bodies, placing dancers in more difficult stories that did not belong to them,