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Listen to our dances

site-specific performance & community dance workshop created for Tentart Festival

Τhe site-specific instant composition performance Listen to our dances was created for the 5th Tentart Festival in Drama, Greece, choreographed and performed by Polena Kolia.

The performance explores our common dance that takes place every day when we share the same space and addresses how dance exists everywhere as long as we let it become visible and tangible in the complex network of endless movement and sound networks created by our co-existence.

I developed an instant composition score based on my research on the shared structures of movement and sound inspired by Laban Movement Analysis' Effort Theory. Deriving from this score the performance was unravelled over 3 different parts of the Agia Varvara park chosen for their different landscapes and sizes that created varying conditions for the movement, interactions and thus the resulting movement-sound connections of the spectator-participants' attendance.

I responded with my dance composing movement instantly to the produced souds through the developed score attempting to embody how dance emerges every moment everywhere. I addressed how, since we co-exist, every moment and every space holds the promise of a spontane dance, that can reveal that we connect inextricably through movement and the experience of space through all of our senses. During the festival I also delivered a community dance workshop exploring this instant composition methodology and score with the participants.

Photo credits: Maritina Mpakoula

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