ON BODIES 2025 | DANCE HOUSE LEFKOSIA | 24/5
Event Date
May 24, 2025
Event Time
20:00
Event Location
Dance House Lefkosia, Pathenonos 25, Nicosia, 1105, Cyprus
Event Description
THE FOLLOWING TICKET IS FOR THE PERFORMANCES ON SATURDAY, 24TH OF MAY.
FOR PURCHASE A TICKET FOR THURSDAY, 22ND OF MAY: https://dancehouselefkosia.com/blog/events/on-bodies-2025-dance-house-lefkosia/
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On Bodies 2025
dance and performance festival
22-25 May 2025
Dance House Lefkosia
https://dancehouselefkosia.com/events-2/
Dance House Lefkosia organizes the On Bodies festival 2025 which will take place from the 22nd to the 25th of May. The On Bodies festival is one of the most important dance and performance festivals in Cyprus, with the recent years focusing on dance’s relation with today’s reality.
Building on last year’s theme of healing, On Bodies 2025 will focus on RESILIENCE: the ability to adapt—whether as individuals, communities, or interconnected networks—to life’s challenges. This includes maintaining healthy functioning in the face of high-risk situations and enduring trauma, whether personal or environmental. The festival explores various elements, practices, and experiences related to the resilient bodies in personal, collective, communal, and sociocultural contexts, examining how resilience influences our survival mechanisms in these days and times.
By incorporating various forms of contemporary choreographic performances (stage works, interactive/participatory creations, performance lectures, site-specific performances, long durational works, etc) we aim at a critical correlation with the concerns and issues that exist today.
This year’s programme includes proposals from young and established artists from Cyprus and abroad as well as workshops, discussions and more.
The festival takes place on the main stage and in the neighborhood of Dance House Lefkosia, and at Athalassa Park. The overall programme was curated by Petros Konnaris and the pieces from the open call were selected together with Arianna Economou, Andromachi D. Lindahl, Pavlos Marios Ktoridis, and Charis Iacovou.
On Thursday 22.5 we begin with Interference net. (CY) and the performative walk Gathering at Ayios Andreas exploring the layered geographies around Dance House Lefkosia. We continue with Ahmed El Gendy (EG/NL) and the performance i feel you like the moon feels the earth sharing personal stories on how time, intimacy, and silence transform the relationships with strangers.
On Friday 23.5 George Bizios (CY) opens the evening with the performance right in the center of the matter, a performance piece that proposes a process for activating the heart. We continue with The Mangonel Project by Avgoustina Triarou (CY) and endlessly shifting, always charging bodies on the verge of crashing, moving, fluctuating, and falling. The evening ends with Satoshi Kudo (JP/SE) and Unreliable Narrator, with a complicated choreography of deconstructed and fragmented movement in composition with wave sounds. Additionally, on 21st and 22nd of May, Satoshi will lead a workshop based on his original movement theory.
On Saturday 24.5, Konstantina Skalionta (CY) with the performance SIDE EFFECTS, claims the stage as a space, restoring her visibility as a woman, in a patriarchal society that constantly silences and vanishes her experience. Mariia Bakalo (UKR) in the performative lecture how to hold in one piece, shares experiences of resistance, resilience and survival through movement narration. We finalize the evening with Nayia T. Karacosta (CY) and Awaken where together with her team explore the small daily movements of waking up that embody resilience and adaptability.
Saturday’s programme aims to be friendly to people with sensory disabilities through the implementation of creative accessibility methods with integrated audio description elements. For the performances SIDE EFFECTS and how to hold in one piece, haptic tours will take place at 18:00 and for Awaken, during the intermission. Additionally, during all three performances there will be Cypriot Sign Language interpretation.
On Sunday 25.5, arisandmartha (GR) in ALL THAT MATTER or notes on performing friendship explore on stage the emotional and physical level of their friendship, professional collaboration, relationship and stage coexistence. Jana Jacuka (LV/NL) closes the festival with ΗΑ and by removing all the theatrical distractions, explores the performativity of laughter as an escaping mechanism.
In addition to the performance in and around Dance House Lefkosia, Resisting Extinction by Olive Bieringa/ Body Cartography (NZ/NOR) takes place with the support of Perform Europe in the frame of the project Resisting Extinction at the Peripheries. This participatory performance that takes place at Athalassa Park addresses the ecological crisis and offers practices for living and dying together on, in and with a damaged earth.
Organizer: Dance House Lefkosia
Institutional Sponsor: Department of Contemporary Performance – Dep. Ministry of Culture Cyprus
Supporters: Embassy of Norway in Greece, Nea Kinisi, Τerra Cypria, BirdLife Cyprus, Perform Europe
Mobility Partner: Center of Performing Arts MITOS
Tickets: €12/ €8* per day
https://dancehouselefkosia.com/events-2/
*students, people with disability/disabled people, pensioners, friends of Dance House Lefkosia by using the coupon code ‘REDUCED4’ during the purchase
SCHEDULE:
Wednesday 21.5
10:00 rehearsal – Workshop
Satoshi Kudo (JP/SE) – Motion Qualia (120’) *
Thursday 22.5
10:00 rehearsal – Workshop
Satoshi Kudo (JP/SE) – Motion Qualia (120’) *
17:30: Dance House Lefkosia – Bodies in the Garden
Interference net. (CY) – Gathering at Ayios Andreas (150’)
20:00: Dance House Lefkosia – Bodies on Stage
Ahmed El Gendy (EG/NL) – i feel you like the moon feels the earth (45’)
Friday 23.5
17:00: Athalassa Park – Bodies in the Garden
Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad (NZ/NOR) – Resisting Extinction (150’) 12+ **
20:00: Dance House Lefkosia – Bodies on Stage
George Bizios (CY) – right in the center of the matter (15’)
Avgoustina Triarou (CY) – The Mangonel Project (30’)
Satoshi Kudo (JP/SE) – Unreliable Narrator (20’) 16+
Saturday 24.5
10:00 & 17:00: Athalassa Park – Bodies in the Garden
Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad (NZ/NOR) – Resisting Extinction (150’) 12+ **
20:00: Dance House Lefkosia – Bodies on Stage
Konstantina Skalionta (CY) – SIDE EFFECTS (30’)
Mariia Bakalo (UKR) – How to Hold in One Piece (21’)
Nayia T. Karacosta (CY) – Awaken (30’)
Sunday 25.5
10:00: Athalassa Park – Bodies in the Garden
Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad (NZ/NOR) – Resisting Extinction (150’) 12+ **
20:00: Dance House Lefkosia – Bodies on Stage
arisandmartha (GR) – ALL THAT MATTER or notes on performing friendship (45’)
Jana Jacuka (LV/NL) – HA (40’)
* Participation cost €60 (€50 friends of Dance House). More information and registration: https://dancehouselefkosia.com/blog/events/workshop-with-satoshi-kudo-motion-qualia/
** Limited number of places. Reservation needed at https://forms.gle/gFD3Gk8Ee1U199th9