"RE-CALL" travels at "Mill of Performing Arts" festival in Larissa
On Sunday, September 27, Venetsiana Kalabaliki’s work “RE-CALL” will be presented at the Municipal Conservatoire of Larissa.
Photo: Chloe Kritharas
RE-CALL, which was first presented in the context of the Onassis New Choreographers Festival 7 at Stegi, is traveling to Larissa as part of the “Mill of Performing Arts” annual festival. On Sunday, September 27, Irini Kourouvani and Vivi Christodoulopoulou will take the stage at the Municipal Conservatoire of Larissa and give a performance which will be streamed on-line at the open air cinema of Larissa.
The performance will have for the first time live audio description in Greek for the blind and visually impaired members of the audience, in order to be as accessible as possible to everybody.
An Onassis Stegi production in the framework of the European network Europe Beyond Access, co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union.What kinds of identity do moving bodies bear? In the work “RE-CALL”, choreographer Venetsiana Kalampaliki focuses on the identity of the body and on how it is shaped both by the past and by each moment in the present. In a stripped-back scenic environment, the very bodies of the dancers – pitted against time with every step – play the principal roles.
Through repetitive movements, moments of pause and acts of walking, the performers define their routes and manifest fleeting stories that fade away like traces in the sand. With her gaze fixed firmly on each separate individual, and taking precision and simplicity as her guide, the choreographer creates human portraits and explores the meaning of the moment as a dimension, both temporal and spatial.
The “Mill of Performing Arts” festival takes place every year at the end of September, in Larissa, at the premises of the industrial heritage site “Mill of Pappas,” which include theater, dance, music, puppetry and cinema stages, as well as less conventional, outdoor and indoor spaces, which can host shows, concerts and performances.
For 2020, the festival bears the subtitle SEVEN that has a dual meaning: on the one hand, it declares the seventh year of its realization, while on the other hand it is the acronym in Greek for “Redefining Performing Arts and Disability,” thus expressing both the theme and the vision of the festival.
