choreographic performance for 3 dancers 

CHOREOGRAPHER’S NOTE

In «3 mountains not to climb», the audience entering the theatre sees a performance which is already in progress while its scenic composition extends beyond the limits of the stage and takes the form of an installation. So, the duration of the performance is not simply stated by the scenic presence. Everything has already begun and the ends as well as the beginning remain indefinable. The creation of an emotive atmosphere with the introduction of large surfaces of clear colours (black and white), constructs the essential scenery which is capable to imply the tragic element of the human being with the roles of the observer and the observed (dancers and objects) distinct. The combination of realistic elements together with those of pure abstraction underlines the meanings of juxtaposition and of the simultaneous. It is also necessary for the aesthetic reformation of the space. I worked a lot with the image and the body posture. The body posture in movement or in immobility going many times up to the corporeality of thought. I placed the movement inside the image so that the movement will form the vibration of the image. I focused on the constant appearances and disappearances of the dancers, on the elasticity of forms as well as on the interactions between immobility, slow movement, and movement. From these bidirectional interactions resulted the dramatically of the performers and emerged the feeding of the intensity of the images. So, I wanted to construct a space-time in layers, a place of conciliation of the being, a place where the dancer is so important as the lighting, the music, the objects, the diagonal and vertical lines of a tableau vivant.

ABSTRACT

Choreographed landscape

Drawing material from the Birth of Tragedy of F. Nietzsche, the «3 mountains not to climb», is a work which approaches with profundity the limits of reality and illusion, of conscious and unconscious, examining, at the same time, the meanings of the individual’s tragedy as this results from the conflict between free will and necessity. The choreographer focuses on the duality between Apollonian and Dionysian element, thus, expressing in a symbolic level the fragmentation of the individual and his amalgamation with the primary being. Orchestrated with great precision by the body, this kinetic, sonic and plastic display of the space is characterized by an instigation of exposures between absence and presence and although the performance is dark enough, it includes a liberating feeling and a confidential whisper for the rise and fall of human being. The choreography itself places in front the strength of associations and collage, the plastic interpretation of feelings and of the subconscious, as well as the free subjective continuity of action which the audience is called to live as an immediate experience, as a process which takes place in the present, as a dancing action in progress.

CREDITS

Production: Synthesis 748 Coproduction – Support: John F. Costopoulos Foundation, CND-National Dance Center of France in Paris, Athens School of Fine Arts, Patras International Festival, Michael Cacoyannis Foundation Concept, Choreography, Set Design: Spyros Kouvaras Music Composition: George Kouvaras Dancers: Korina Kotsiri, Lina Ioannidou, Spyros Kouvaras Lighting Design: Thomas Economacos Video Design: Yiannis Tsiousis Visual Material: Lia Elia & Aikaterini Koutsi-Marouda