Cultural

Beytna* IOMARRAJEH| MAQAMAT fri 20:30 (75’)   Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival 2022 opens with an inventive performance by prominent choreographer from Lebanon, Omar Rajeh. Four choreographers and four musicians coming from Lebanon, Japan, Palestine, Belgium, and Togo are meeting on stage over a banquet of food. They are coming from different continents, cultures, and countries. […]

ANIMALE*I FRANCESCA FOSCARINI / COSIMO LOPALCO sun 20:30 (40’)   The solo master piece from Italy (Danza&Danza prize 2018) was presented at La Biennale Venezia 2018, and itis inspired by the painter Antonio Ligabue and his extraordinary visions of the natural world. Animale brings to the stage, in the words of John Berger, a frightfully […]

LANDSCAPE *I ELENA ANTONIOU 16+ mon 20:30 (57’) In this solo performance, Elena Antoniou unapologetically demonstrates herself in order to highlight the personal experience as a collective landscape. She overexposes the female body with pleasure and extends the limit of spectacle by skillfully and intentionally inviting the gaze of the spectators. In LANDSCAPE, Antoniou creates […]

Romeo, Romeo, Romeo* | JOSHUAMONTEN On Stage, wed 20:30 (60’) Dance is a mating ritual. Even today, in the age of online dating apps, dance continues to play a central role in how many of us find a mate. This dance production from Switzerland for four Romeos (one of whom is performed by a woman) explores the idea […]

Q&A*IRACHEL ERDOS On Stage fri 20:30 (50’)   Would you like to be famous? When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else? What is your most terrible memory? How close and warm is your family? 4 dancers... 36 questions...   Between a talk show and a Sunday confession, Q&A from Israel shares intimate […]

Layaz*I EDITTA BRAUN COMPANY sun 20:30 (50’)   How can a young woman find her own self under the many veiling and protective layers that surround her? From Austria, a play about identity, freedom, the "other" that is inherent in us - and about female complicité across generational and cultural boundaries.   Choreography: Editta Braun […]

SAKRAIALEXIS VASSILIOU On Stage sun 15:00 20:30 (50‘)  18+   In his new work, Alexis Vassiliou continues the research that he started with the short film EGKATA in 2020, on the origins of language, human emotions and embodied experiences. During ΣΑΚΡΑseven performers will be attempting to generate and, therefore, perform the basic operations of breath, […]

45* I POLISH DANCE THEATRE I Jacek Przybyłowicz wed 20:30 (45’)   45 shows the story of young dancers talking about - in a symbolic dimension - the subject of a collective, merged with teamwork, as well as a common, conscious decision to choose art as a way of life. The creators want to show […]

Free At Last*I DANAE & DIONYSIOS wed 20:30 (50') Mystical imagery; dark atmosphere; Greek tradition deconstructed and linked with the present. An original choreography inspired by the legendary Dance of Zalongo. Danae & Dionysios from Greece carry the emotionally charged ‘last dance’ onto the stage, conveying the movement towards the brink of the abyss. Bodies […]

Portraits in otherness*   fri 20:30 (55’)   Portraits in Otherness is a project that promotes artists who carry multiple identities and whose works dance on the borders of the worlds we know and those we imagine. Originally conceptualized and curated by internationally renowned choreographer and dancer Akram Khan and his creative producer Farooq Chaudhry in 2017, Portraits […]