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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,
No emotions
Like a novel’s first paragraph, facial expressions always give clues about a performance. A dancers face is without a doubt the most powerful tool to convey personality, to add nuance to a role and develop a deeper connection with the audience.
The lost continent
Cyprus is the centre of the Mediterranean, a lost continent submerged by a new geopolitics, just as water had covered Atlantis.
Reactivate – Nicosia ART Fair
Reactivate – Nicosia Art Fair is an initiative which aims to bring local artists together, and collectively create a space to host expression and creativity in its various forms. Vision is to bring art closer to the public, in an alternative structure that distances itself from the formal way of exhibiting art.
The disappointed actress
Theatres were closed during the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic. How is the experience of an actress not having access to her world? Theatre is entertainment for someone, culture for others, life for players.
We are the Art
Is Art related to theatres, buildings, funding, business and financial statements? Or Art is related to artists, with their bodies, their braveness, their uninterrupted research, their passions, their culture, their revolutionary goals?
Where are you all?
The limited size of the island, the division, in 2020 the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic. Actresses and actors have a hard life in this warm island. Natalia plays the clown, like every character she desperately needs her audience, her soulmates, her friends. She finds closed theatres and barbed wires.
Karfitses / Pins – Homage to Christoforos Savva
Kartses / Pins is a homage to Christoforos Savva, inspired by three of his works: Circles and Squares, Sphere and Rising Form. A dance–performance, upon observing the fluidity, the play of light and movement within the thickly inhabited canvas of pins of the works by Christoforos Savva.
Humanist Cyprus
There are two anthropological sides in our civilization.
One side is based on the idea that happiness is a sum of usefulness. The other side looks for goodness in things.