site specific choreographic project for three dancers
at Lysicrate’s Monument in Athens

INFO NOTE

The work Anaskamma #, is a diptych of Spyros Kouvaras, consisting of two different choreographic outdoor performances which will be performed at selected historic places of Athens. The performances will take place in the audience’s and passers’-by presence, they will be recorded and after the treatment of their material, they will be exhibited in a video art form at Owl Art Space gallery in Athens, within the bounds of the visual project Metrologos and the thematic Transitions / Space – Time. The goal of the exhibition is the conversation between Out and In and their dialectical connection which is formed and completed during the process.

CHOREOGRAPHER’S NOTE

I compare the choreographic performances of my diptych Anaskamma # to “windows”. Windows between place and time, memory and oblivion, static and changing. Examining and deconstructing memory and its mechanisms, I did not try to make mention of history but on the contrary to act interventionally and be engaged critically in it. Therefore, I was interested in the approach of the meaning of memory as something, which is in constant changing accordingly to the subject and the conditions under which the memory is activated. It is about an admixture of past and present which looks forward the future. The result of this interacting process is the production of a difference, a new meaning for the space and the archeological finds as this emerges from placing the three bodies in the scenery and it’s choreographing. Choreographing movement in this monumental place, I have the intension to put these bodies, these figures, like invaders in the scenery so that through movement, a vibration would be caused on the monumental image, a new experience of the space, a reunion with the general environment.

CREDITS

Production: Owl Art Space gallery Concept, Choreography: Spyros Kouvaras Dancers: Korina Kotsiri, Lina Ioannidou, Spyros Kouvaras Curators of the visual project MetroLogos and its Thematic, Transitions / Space-Time: Alexandra Nasioula, Angelos Skourtis Videographer: Vlassis Stathoulias.