Parallel Program

Saturday 4 March | 16:30-18:00 | Galaxy Studio - Onassis Stegi

Masterclass with Moriah Evans – Our Bodies Ourselves

We will work with a speculative relationship to one’s own body and the bodies of others to grasp what our bodies contain. Feminisms are the groundwork for a dancing methodology initiated from deep inside the body’s internal organs. We will work with a system of perception-action through five distinct energetic modalities. We will articulate movement from individualized sensations that remain forever unknown and perpetually subjective, abandoning representations often projected onto a body’s surface. How might we access notions of waste within the body to expel it? We will sustain cathartic events towards states of self and flesh and then investigate what transpires in their wake, remains.

Moriah Evans is an eminent choreographer and dancer from New York, who approaches dance as a carnal, matriarchal form that oscillates between minimalism and extravagance. Since 2011, through the initiative “The Bureau for the Future of Choreography,” she has introduced a collective system with the purpose of generating research processes and practices for the study of participatory performances and choreographic systems.

The masterclass will take place in English, without interpretation

Sunday 5 March | 16:30-18:00 | Galaxy Studio - Onassis Stegi

Masterclass with Christian Rizzo – Εxpress the invisible and the unexpected

Through his experience as a multidisciplinary artist, Christian Rizzo retraces the path of a quest for a form that attempts to express the invisible and the unexpected. Dance, fashion, rock, and visual art come together in creations that punctuate a non-linear path, a search for sense that is interwoven by a tenuous dialogue between abstraction and fiction. Today, he is investigating the relationship between danced gestures and handcrafted gesture.

Christian Rizzo is an internationally renowned French choreographer, visual artist, and curator, with more than 40 original choreographies on his track record. Since 2015, he serves as the Director of the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier-Occitanie (currently renamed ICI / International Choreographic Institute), under which capacity he has supported the research of many Greek creators. Among the pioneers of dramaturgy with objects in contemporary dance and familiar to the Greek audience through his former performances at the Athens Epidaurus Festival and the Kalamata International Dance Festival, Christian Rizzo is a tireless explorer of the transformative relationship between bodies and space.

The masterclass will take place in English, without interpretation

Sunday 5 March | 21:30 | Upper Stage

Following the end of the performances, a discussion between the audience and choreographers Nefeli Asteriou, Elena Antoniou, Xenia Koghilaki, and Chara Kotsali will be held at the Upper Stage of Onassis Stegi, moderated by Christina Galanopoulou, Journalist – Columnist on feminist and gender issues