Vanishing Point lands on the Onassis Channel from the Aerowaves Spring Forward Festival 2022, on Thursday, April 28th

The “Vanishing Point” film constitutes the continuation of a collaboration between the three core creators of “Vanishing Point” (2020), a choreographic work commissioned and produced by Onassis Stegi. Dafin Antoniadou, Alexandros Vardaxoglou, and Constantine Skourlis have been working together since 2019. Their output revolves mainly around choreography, as well as sound and film practices. Having already further developed two distinct works: “Vanishing Point” (choreography, 2020), “DEEP HORIZON” (multi-channel transmedia installation, 2022), the film comes to complete the “Vanishing Point” concept, on Thursday, April 28, at Onassis Channel on YouTube.

The screening of the film at Onassis Channel on YouTube takes places in parallel with the presence of the work as part of Spring Forward Festival, on Sunday, May 1, 2022, after having been selected by the renowned Aerowaves network as one of the 20 most important choreographies created by emerging European artists for 2022. The work has already been performed at such major European festivals as ONE DANCE WEEK (Plovdiv), RIDCC (Rotterdam), and Pays de Danses (Liège).

Spring Forward Festival 2022 takes place in Eleusis, within the framework of Moving Europe, a 2023 Eleusis Cultural Capital of Europe program, focusing on young people and dance, with the main objectives of creating a dialogue between Greek and foreign artists, while actively supporting young and emerging choreographers and cultivating a new audience for dance in the city, beyond the limits of the title of European Capital of Culture.

The body as the core of existence, but also a frontier of conscience. In “Vanishing Point”, a humanoid being wakes from the depths of an agonizing memory or an otherworldly future. Is this science fiction or some nightmare made a reality?

“Dismembered and incomplete at the edges of life” in the words of these two choreographers, the body seems to be both a destination reached and unreachably distant at the same time. The stage is turned into a mirror of existence, through which the deepest of fears are refracted, with images drawn from the human condition itself.

Taking endless transformations and the plasticity of bodies as its vehicle, this work places us within the eternal struggle with forces that act on each other in contradictory and yet connective ways as concerns the subject (as in conscious mind): the irresistible desire for union, that serves as a reminder of every symbiotic relationship that seeks to “birth” a new form of life, and the violent separation from the other, that signifies our dual nature that – though seemingly a given – opens itself up every so often to the unknown with a view to attaining totality.

Credits

Conceived & Directed by Constantine Skourlis, Dafin Antoniadou & Alexandros Vardaxoglou
Direction of Photography: Georgia Arvaniti
Choreography by Alexandros Vardaxoglou, Dafin Antoniadou
Original Music by Constantine Skourlis & Stephan Richter
Audio Spatialization & Sound Design: Nicholas Kazazis
Art Director: Christina Lardikou
Post production: Georgia Arvaniti
Assistant Art Director: Vasiliki Yolande Kita, Dafni Iliopoulou
Additional Photography by Myrto Grigoriou
Electrician: Haris Pournias
Assistant: Asteris Tziolas
Audio Mastering: Nicholas Kazazis
Camera equipment: RentPhotoVideo / Olympia Mytilinaiou
Production Management & Coordination: Delta Pi
Supported by Bedouin Records
Produced by ONASSIS STEGI