“The Other Side”
presented at NEA KINISI Summer Dance Festival 2022
Choreography: Marita Anastasi
Performance: Marita Anastasi, Eleana Charalambous , Julie Charalambidou*
Dramaturgy: Marina Kakoulli
Sound: Manos Stratis
Costumes: Vεroniki (Veronika Hadjistefanou)
Production: Nea Kinisi Summe Dance Festival 2022
On site assistance: Giannos Hadjivasiliou
*emergency replacement due to COVID19
A wall is built with sand. A street and an audience are cut apart. How can this wall affect the dynamics of our urban experience and our embodied memory of it?
Can a wall act as a point of support and solidarity or can it only exist as a point of tension and contestation? And at the end of the day, how sturdy is such a wall?
How easy is it for it to collapse? And if it does collapse what happens next?
Ultimately, what is there to be found on the other side?
Hold me, not.
created for Inklingroom at The Baths, June 2022.
Choreography: Marita Anastasi
Performance: Keity Pooke, Saskia Faye Larcombe
Sound: George Demetriou, Marcos Shukuroglou
How long can you hold me for before we let go?
A wall is built with sand. A street and an audience are cut apart. How can this wall affect the dynamics of our urban experience and our embodied memory of it?
Can a wall act as a point of support and solidarity or can it only exist as a point of tension and contestation? And at the end of the day, how sturdy is such a wall?
How easy is it for it to collapse? And if it does collapse what happens next?
Ultimately, what is there to be found on the other side?
Project “Archive”
Choreography/Performance: Marita Anastasi
Dramaturgy: Nefeli Kentoni
Sound: George Deetriou, Marcos Shukuroglou
Mentors: Mary Nunan, Charlie Morrissey
Production for “archive”: Dance House Nicosia 2021
Project “Archive” 2020-2022 is a two year cumulative research on grief, memory and embodiment. The starting point for this research has been my journey through mourning, grief and acceptance of my mother’s death in 2016. Combining projections of archived video footage and voice recordings with live physical performance I attempt to set up a domain for engagement and reflection. Through my performance I invite my audience to dive into their own memories and act of remembering.
The first leg of the project was developed as part of the Artist in Residence Programme by Dance House Nicosia, under the mentorship of Mary Nunan. The initial finding from the R&D in Nicosia were further developed at the London Contemporary Dance School as part of my MA Dissertation research under the mentorships of Charlie Morrissey and Hilary Stainsby. The first edition of the work was presented in December 2021 at Dance House Nicosia as well as the London Contemporary Dance School under the title “archive”. The piece was re-worked and refined with the input of dramaturg Nefeli Kentoni and a second instalment under the title “archive 2.0
was presented at Resolution Festival 2022 at The Place.
“Zoom Project”
Zoom Project is a collaboration between performers, musicians and video artists who at the time of creation all lived in different locations (Cyprus, Slovakia, Netherlands, USA). It was created entirely by distance with the help of technology.
Originally designed as a movement installation it is comprised by a 5 minute video clip combined with live performance. Four bodies come together from a distance challenging the limits of virtual boxes and isolation.
The installation originally premiered at NO-BODY Festival at Dance House Nicosia in 2020. It was later developed to a longer Zoom solo performance for the Everything Flows Festival as part of its 1 month digital residency.
Credits:
Performance: Marita Anastasi, Julie Charalambidou, Dylan Lambert, Demetris Charalambous
Sound: Marcos Shucuroglou, George Demetriou
Direction/Editing: CJ Spyris, Myrto Economidou
Presented at: NO-BODY Festival Dance House Nicosia, Everything Flows Festival
“Exhibit A“
Inspired by Rene Magritte’s use of ordinary objects in unusual contexts, Exhibits A explores themes of materiality, functionality and what it means to be seen.
Presented as part of Gallery 2019, produced by the American University Dance cohort, class of 2020.
Credits:
Choreography: Marita Anastasi. Performance: Jess Carell, Michela Dwyer, Jessica Foster, Kira Fontana, Eva Herron, Hannah Gmach, Abigail Jackson, Eliza Wright. Mentor: Britta Joy Peterson Assistance: Marcu Ruiz
