choreographic performance for 4 dancers 

CHOREOGRAPHER’S NOTE

Using movement parameters, such as respiration, gravity and body’s weight, my initial goal was to cultivate a subtle kinesiology that gives the dancers an inner volume, a calm intensity. These inner volumes activate “kinetic currents” that penetrate the body musculoskeletally and allow the gradual conversion of the organic energy into movement so that the amorphous masses of the dancers acquire progressively an hybridity. The choreographic score is composed by the inner vibrations of the dancers and through their simultaneous and parallel physicality, emerge qualities of a new kinetic language. The choreography creates an invisible thread, that connects the four dancers in one last dance, just before human being become a multiplanetary creature.

ABSTRACT

Inspired by how bodies are aesthetically affected by living in a digitalised world, “COYOTE, we used to be humans”, creates reflections on the evolution of the human being from his animalistic past to his hybrid, cyborg, future. The work examines the problematic representations of the post-industrial human body and introduces an emergent ecosystem without clear boundaries between civilisation and nature. COYOTE’S dancers seem to come from another (non)place. They rediscover their relation with time and memory and create a meta-mythical layer from archetype to the utopian impulse, seeking new ways of reinventing cosmos. 

CREDITS

Production: Synthesis 748 Coproduction – Support: Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Montpellier Danse, season 2022-2023 as part of the residency at AGORA-Cité Internationale de la Danse, CND-National Dance Centre of France in Paris, Centre Culturel Hellénique Concept, Choreography: Spyros Kouvaras Expanded Scenography, Costumes: Adonis Volanakis Music Composition: George Kouvaras Artistic Collaboration: Korina Kotsiri Dancers: Alexandra Rogovska, Anastasia Valsamaki, Manos Kotsaris, Spyros Kouvaras Dramaturgy: Stella Dimitrakopoulou Lighting Designer: Thomas Economacos Costumes Making: Despoina Makarouni Assistant Choreographer: Angelos Papadopoulos Assistant Scenographer: Marina Dolcetti Production Manager: Chara Petraki Visual Material: Yiorgos Bakalis Communication Manager: Maria Tsolaki