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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Performing the nest/ one route to Freedom/ Trial One
I want to build my nest
Languid body, dull memory
The stillness launches surprises of unexpected joy
Self-definition
Archetypal moments that want to become a guide
A reverse journey
… I drive
The apex of the view searches for me
An extroverted view!
A grand space!
I search for the rhythm of the truth
Where has freedom nested?
A three-dimensional comic book in a futuristic mood that draws from manga aesthetics. The body becomes the comic book artist's pencil and designs, in real time, the atmosphere of the frames. The protagonist, Jiyū, is searching for her identity in a world of inner conflict, so that she may start over. She travels, wondering where her freedom is hidden, searching for it on her maze-like journey.
Project contributors
Idea-Choreography: Despina Kapoulitsa
Sets-costumes: Eliza Moschopoulou
Original music composer: Sakis Abatzidis
Lighting design: Vangelis Xonoglou
Set construction: Eliza Moschopoulou, Vangelis Xonoglou
Assistant choreographer: Sonia Ntova
Dancers: Despina Kapoulits and Evanthia Sofronidou
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A collaboration with Soma os | Artistic Dance theater group
A dedicatory performance at the exhibition " Beyond common sense. Russian avant-garde Works from the Costakis Collection of the State Museum of Contemporary Art ".
Non- objective art , constructivism, organic education, Solomon Nikritin, 4 modules, 4 different spaces, onse story , a revolution.
15 performers- dancers, original music, visuals, installations revives the trend of Russian avant-garde nowadays.
Concept -Choreography - Interpretation: Soma Os
Edited first module: Pisiou Maria,Sapounidou Christina, Kioumourtzidou Despina
Edited second module: Akritidou Paschalia, Raptis Dimitris
Editing 3rd and 4th module: Raptis Dimitris Hatzopoulos Vasilis, Mpakaliou Katerina
Dancers/ performers: Pisiou Maria,Sapounidou Christina, Kioumourtzidou Despina, Akritidou
Paschalia, Raptis Dimitris, Ntova Sonia, Tzivanoglou Nineta, Taka Ermioni, Lagidou Natalia,
Karamitros Ilias, Chrisafoudi Stella,Valavani Eva, Pimenidou Maria
Live Music: Velenis Konstantinos
installations: Hatzopoulos Vasilis, Mpakaliou Katerina
Costumes: Athanasiadou Charoula
With the support of Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki.
https://vimeo.com/168399404
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¨Performing the nest: η α π α ρ χ ή¨ by Despina Kapoulitsa
Athens Video Dance Project October 14 / 22.15 / Sfageia Thessaloniki
50th Dimitria of Thessaloniki.
Do I want to build my nest. ...
But the body is dull, blurred memory and the time more and dazzles.
It moves in a state of lull, ejects surprises archetypal joy. ...
And a question of self-determination, through moments that want to become Guide!
The trip is rather backward ..and I cross on the other side.
Finally, where does freedom have snuggle?
Performer: Despina Kapoulitsa
Artist: Eliza Moschopoulou
Kinetic assistant: Sonia Ntova
Musical options: Delagor
Costume: Helen Hasioti
Designing promotional materials: Sonia Ntova
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Rush, by Jens Biedermann
RUSH commenting on the rest and breathlessness in our society : We rush from one to another , performance and success are required and the faster the better . Driven by an external dictates of the community, we are always Travelers rushing from here to there without and " where " to reflect " Here ". What happens to us when these driven power fails and is been thrown back to us ?
Choreographie, Konzept: Jens Biedermann
Performers: Diane Gemsch, Manel Salas Palau, Sonia Ntova, Laura Burgener
Music: György Ligeti, Boris Tschaikowski, Charles Ives
Tournee: Tanplan Ost 2014, CH
http://www.artemotio.ch/_home/Rush.html
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Diccillu, by DysoundBo
DICCILLU (Pron. "DITCHILLU", Sicilian for "tell about us") is a moving story about the contradictory island of Sicily.
We think about sun, sea, siesta. We see the market: honking cars, gesticulating hands, railing merchants. We smell fish, almond trees and orange blossoms, herbs - Mediterranean Orient. There are fruits and abundance, love and the mamma, there's always a plate of pasta. There is poverty, lack of water, mafia.
The modern vocabulary of contemporary dance meets folk-influenced music; Traditions and contradictions of an European reality come together on stage. In her latest choreography, Linda Magnifico tells about her homeland Sicily. The beauty and brokenness of this country, the powerful spirit are present from the first moment. Accompanied by live music, four dancers and a singer describe Sicilian life in expressive images and virtuoso movements.
Production: cie. dysoundbo
Artistic Direction: Linda Magnifico & Sasha Shlain
Choreography: Linda Magnifico in collaboration with the dancers
Original Music: Sasha Shlain
Dancers:Pamela Monreale,Patricia Rotondaro/Sonia Ntova,
Soledad Steinhard, Elena Morena Weber
Live Music: Sasha Shlain, Jake Pisaq
Singer: Rachel Buchhold
Light Design: Remo Merz
Video: Kristian Breitenbach
Dramaturgic Mentor: Turi Zinna
Graphics: Elena Morena Weber
http://www.dysoundbo.net/#!diccillu/cwix
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Bodhi.mov , by AIEP
We are seeing, for decades, the proliferation of objects that fill our lives. We are computer employees, accustomed to the network, subject to mobile phones and messages. Interloquiamo constantly with objects / subjects who respond to us and to which we do not know without. Our reality is one of the images that come to us through "screens" multiform that reinforce a relationship with the world more and more indirect and mediated. In this scenario dense, crowded and too full, the sentient body sends us messages. Subject demanding, investigates, explores, listens and acts to fathom with the senses, the properties of things. Bodhi in the body becomes a gateway to the meaning of things, to a size that it claims the life force and creative.
The show is performed by five dancers and makes use of radio frequency accelerometers that allow performers to relate to an interactive environment. A subtle use of technology to amplify the movement relazionandolo a layered sound environment, which has areas of density and thickness connected to the gestures of the dancer.
by Ariella Vidach, Claudio Prati, Paul Aztori
choreography: Ariella Vidach
Dance: Anna Maria Ajmone, Daria Menichetti, Sonia Ntova, Giulio Petrucci, David Valrosso
Sound design and audio programming: Alessio Sabella
Visual design - interactive programming: Sebastiano Barbieri
Costumes: Lydia Sonderegger
Lighting design: Stefano Pirandello
Production: Ariella Vidach - Aiep - Adventures Helicopter Products , 2011
With the support of the Ministry of Heritage and Culture , DECS Culture Division - Canton Ticino .
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Sharing Visions by Philipp Egli
A collaboration of Philipp Egli, 8 dancers of different background and nation, 3 musicians and a light designer.
It was created for Jullius Baer bank and it was performed in the 125 year anniversary of the company in the HAllenStadion of Zurich in May of 2015.
Artisitc Direction: Philipp Egli
Set and light desin: Guido Petzold
Costumes: Claudia Binder
Musicians: Julien Quentin (piano), Elea Nick (violin), Marcel Gschwerd (Dj)
Dancers: Myrna Camara, Azusa Nishimura, Sandra Klimek, Nadine Sieber, Sonia Ntova, Jonathar Huor, Samuel Delvaux,Sebastian Rowinsky
Event creation and Production: Rufener events Ltd
Camera: Rafael Brand
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"Seyt"
Performance: Sonia Ntova / Despina Kapoulitsa
Creation, Performance: Sonia Ntova, Despina Kapoulitsa
Movement Attendance: Lia Vasdari
Music (Live) : Haris A
goritas
Lights: Kostas NtanisPhotos: Savvas Lespouridis
Video-documentation: Katerina Bolmati
”Seyt” is the result of the connection of the number 6 (six) and 7 (sept).It is a piece which is in a constantly evolution and indicates an experiment for the dancers, as well for the audience. It does neither pertain to a particular subject nor result an outcome. “Seyt” is based on the repeated changes and moods.Six completely different changes, fragmented into small pieces., trying to build an “absurd” puzzle. The constant mood changes, without no judgment and logic, characterized the piece with an intense element of taunt. There is a depreciation of communication between the dancers, but with the audience as well.“Seyt” can reminds us the contemporary scenery of Greek modern reality. Daily, people snowed with changes that they have not chosen, but still they are not in the time point to act or to judge. We are unable to experience fully our feelings and moods/attitudes..An absurd “puzzle” composes Greek reality..
Premiered at Theater Aneton in Thessaloniki (Greece) on the 26th of June 2012. With the Support of the Contemporary Dance Festival of Thessaloniki, and the Superior School of Dance of the Municipality of Thessaloniki.
My first tic tac of all your seconds: nobody's story or no story at all / Vol1
Written and directed: Eirini Sourgiadaki
Choreography: Sonia Ntova
Translated in English: Yannis Stefanou
Set and costumes: Dimitra Liakoura
Soundscape compiled: Victoria Darila
Performed: Kostas Koronaios, Sonia Ntova
Filmed and edited: Petros Protopapas
My first tic tac of all your seconds” is a perpetual comment based on the idea of a time bomb, which, whereas is heard ticking, will never explode, because its joints are worn by time and environmental factors. The play originates from the modern reality in Greece, seen through the scope of kilometric distance.
As time in the country goes by in mute, the intensity of violence is escalating. As the intensity of violence is escalating, its citizens get used to it, integrate it into their rationality. The spectator is by definition an observer, not participating to a long-distance relationship. Everyone is equally to blame.
A performance for an actor and a dancer, who explore the thin lines of violence in love and hate, who feel that the equilibrium of their lives are dangerously threatened, because one of them sees a walk in the park as a race through blood, stones and tear gas, as a minor or a major war. The irony is that they did not want anything to disturb each one’s desire for the other, they would kill for this desire –maybe this is the most rational “I want” in the world.
Premiered at Gessnerallee Theater, Zurich on the 4 May 2013