Moving the Nomadic Body
How do I structure the map of my ephemeral physical space-time?
Movement and language create space. They create time.
The entanglement of imagination and language in our bodies creates kinetic representations.
‘Moving the nomadic body’ applies movement and choreography as tools of critical thinking, awareness, and political action.
It it a workshop of kinetic composition in which the body moves in the real and the imaginary, while choosing to influence and get influenced.
The body is characterized as a complex entity. The body creates spaces and this is expressed by its performativity in space.
Following the feminist geographer Massey, the workshop activates the three notions of space: discursive - imaginary - corporeal and aims to build new maps.
The workshop offers a different way of interacting with the written words and the reasoning space. How our body, by choosing to reject the hierarchy of the mind in understanding language, can perceive and move language differently?
The more sensitive the body is in its ‘ relational representations’, the more power has to act and inform space as a practice of possibilities, shaped by continuous representations and effects of self and other material relations.
The term ‘nomadic body’ has been influenced by the theory of nomadic subjectivity (Deleuze, Guattari, 1985) by stating free thought that travels away from domination and categorization. A nomadic body that perceives the ‘worn standard notions of hegemony’ and moves away from passivity and stagnation.
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Beyond the urban/ Performing Ecosystems
"beyond the urban/ Performing Ecosystems " is a collaboration of 3 fields of contemporary art- of dance, visual arts and music -and its entanglement. It makes use of the physical details of the place of Milia, and reterritorialize the space.
Scenes shape audiovisual and "tactile" images allowing the audience to connect with the scenery through the the senses and invite them to actively, co-shape its final performative space..
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Idea, Choreography, Performance: Sonia Ntova, Eleonora Ilia
Production: A priori dance co.
Acoustic Ecology Soundscapes: Dimitris Karageorgos
Artistic Consultant : Mariela Nestora
Videos: Kostis Emmanouilidis
Fotos: Marilena Gkoni, Eleni Mandraveli
The performance Beyond the Urban: Performing Ecosystems takes place under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and Sports and the Municipal Regional Theatre of Ioannina.
With the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and Sports (dance performances 2022).