st Dominique bd Arago | Andonis Foniadakis

The world-renowned Greek choreographer Andonis Foniadakis creates, for the first time in his career remotely–through Skype–, a duet for the dancers Alexander Hille and Pier-Loup Lacour. He was inspired by “Color Me,” the brand-new song of the American composer Active Child, taken out of his album In Another Life. The two dancers’ fluidity is refracted through shadows and reflections, capturing the state of confinement into non-common streets, countries, and continents, in terms of a new poetics: the one body’s lust to imagine, touch and feel the other. But here lies a certain peculiarity: the choreographer captures the two dancers’ confinement under the same roof, perhaps seeking out a way out of his own, utter isolation–having nobody with whom to share it. A comment/statement related on the current sociocultural context of how we experience the world and ourselves reflecting the zeitgeist.

Artist: Andonis Foniadakis

Title of the work: st Dominique bd Arago

Year: 2020

Duration: 4΄05΄΄

Medium: Video

People appearing: Pier-Loup Lacour, Alexander Hille

Music/songs used “Color Me”, Active Child

Choreography, camera & editing: Andonis Foniadakis

This artwork was created in the context of ENTER project, an initiative of Onassis Foundation. Onassis Stegi and Onassis USA give artists from all around the world 120 hours to create from home a series of new original commissions; sharing their new reality. Let’s ENTER.