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.

My first tic tac of all your seconds: nobody's story or no story at all / Vol2

 

“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. 

 

 

Concept | Script | Direction: Eirini Sourgiadaki
Choreography: Sonia Ntova
Music: Victoria Darila

Performance: Kostas Koroneos & Sonia Ntova

Set design | Costumes: Dimitra Liakoura
Light design: Christina Thanasoula

Translation: Yannis Stefanou
Announcement voice: Melissa Vetters
Press & Media Relations: Aris Asproulis

 

Stage, Onassis Cultural Center , Athens/ 1.6.2013

With the Support of Onassis Cultural Center

(Selection as New creation of New Artists)