ATMA

Is there anything more malleable than the human body? Dance is the art that concerns itself with the body’s transformations, that is interested in our ability both to view the body in poetic ways and to contemplate the human condition through it. Danae and Dionysios experiment with that most familiar of tools: the body. They explore its fragility but also its endurance, using movement as a means of conveying transformations into and back out of whatever constitutes the natural origins of humankind, whatever has been effaced by culture. In "ATMA", a series of themes selected for their power to move and sensitize audiences are made visual by the two artists. The bestial is contrasted with the human, the Apollonian with the Dionysian, not so as to create yet another unbridgeable dualistic divide, but rather to incorporate two conflicting aspects into one single nature – for it is the very complementarity of opposing elements that characterises the totality of humankind. Duration: 30  min 

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Credits

Choreography - Performance : Danae & Dionysios

Original Music Score : Constantine Skourlis Costume Designer : Vaya Nikolakopoulou
Light Designer : Llorenç Parra

Cello : Konstantinos Chinis

With the support of : Big Storry Productions, One Dance Week
L’Estruch Fabrica de Creatio, Centre Cívic Barceloneta,  Athens Concert Hall