Phenomena – MDT

23–24.5 2015

23.5 2015, at 20.00
24.5 2015, at 20.00

Venue: MDT, Slupskjulsvägen 32, Stockholm, Directions

Phenomena
- “Phenomena”, the first group choreography created by Vardarou, is inspired by “Hardcore Research on Dance” (2012), a solo created around the origins of her personal way of movement.
  
  “Phenomena” are humanly provoked events, moments of tiny contents that surface, outbursts of statements, emptiness, reactions and enhancements of a narrative that is turbulently being shaped. In “Phenomena” the Greek choreographer Georgia Vardarou focuses on the personal, individual movement. Three dancers make their own movement language and their own trail. The choreography seems to emerge spontaneously. Conflict and harmony determine the storyline. The only boundaries are the theatrical space and the need to give meaning to the absurdity of movements.“A main theme in ‘Phenomena’ is that the performance is meaningless unless a person makes personal commitments that give it meaning.”[Paraphrased quote from the Wikipedia article ‘Nausea (novel)’: ‘La Nausée’ is replaced by the word ‘Phenomena’ and ‘life’ by ‘the performance’.]
About Georgia Vardarou
- Georgia Vardarou, from Athens, lives and works in Brussels. Educated at the State School of Dance. After her graduation in 2004 she danced for the choreographer Apostolia Papadamaki and arrived in Brussels where she continued her studies at the dance school P.A.R.T.S.
  
  After her graduation in 2008 she started working as a dancer with the choreographer Salva Sanchis (Kunst/Werk). She has taken part in several pieces by Sanchis, Marc Vanrunxt, Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt and Lance Gries. In 2012 she started the research project “Hardcore Research on Dance” which resulted in a short solo that toured in festivals in Europe. In response to that piece, both Marc Vanrunxt and Salva Sanchis each created a short solo for her. Together with “Hardcore Research on Dance” these three solos were presented as a single solo under the title “Trigon”.
  
  Continuing with the same kind of research and questions as in her solo about personal movement and the eloquence of the language of dance, she created “Phenomena”.
  
  Together with the sound artist Stijn Demeulenaere and Marisa Cabal Cabeza (Busy Rocks), they then created “Sonic Theaters”, a performance for public spaces based on the listening experience of binaural microphones.
  
  She is currently working as a dancer with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker for the last creation of Rosas “Golden Hours (As you like it)”.
Credits
- Concept & choreography: Georgia Vardarou. Dance: Stav Yeini, Georgia Vardarou, Eleanor Campbell. Creation Stav Yeini, Georgia Vardarou, Eun Kyung Lee. Light design: Salva Sanchis. Music: Tyondai Braxton, Rubric Remix (Rework Philip Glass) & Beck, NYC:73-78 (Rework Philip Glass). Coach: Marc Vanrunxt . Technician: Stanislav Dobak. Thanks to: Griet Verstraelen & Filip Mattens. Post-production: Hiros (Brussels). Coproduction: STUK (Leuven), Kunst/Werk (Antwerp), Jardin d’Europe/Workspacebrussels (supported by the Culture Program of the European Union). In collaboration with: Wp zimmer (Antwerp), Ultima Vez (Brussels), Kunstencentrum Vooruit (Ghent). With the support of: the Flemish Community. This presentation is part of the project [DNA] Departures and Arrivals, which is co-financed by the Creative Europe program of the European Commission.
Publication
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Timetable
- 23.5 2015, at 20.00
- 24.5 2015, at 20.00

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