hyperobject is a minimal dance piece for three performers. The flow is relentless, repetitive; a mechanism that once started cannot be stopped. Movements are deconstructed to fragments and reconstructed by repetition, while small permutations give space to imperceptible changes and generate the path for interpretation.

The work emerges through the ensemble, through the orchestration of its different elements, residing particularly in the spacing and timing of each performer. hyperobject resides in the spacing and timing of each different performer. Like a Mandelbrot fractal, the more one witnesses its unfolding, the more it hypnotizes the viewer with permutations of the same object.

In hyperobject the performers exist in the contingency of becoming, focused yet lost in a near-meditative state, stripped to the pure essence of bodies in space and time, offering to the viewer the sense of ungraspable relentlessness that is the key to their universe.

Despite its apparent simplicity, hyperobject is in fact a complex piece, drawing inspiration from, and building on, the minimalist dance and music legacy of the 1970s, which sidestepped smooth flow in favor of the improvised, the distracting, the recondite.

The term hyperobject was coined by Timothy Morton in 2008, in order to describe “a real event or phenomenon so vast that it is beyond human comprehension”.

The research for the piece started in 2019 and was suspended due to the Covid19 pandemic.
hyperobject premiered on 22nd May 2021 at ARC for Dance Festival – Municipal Theatre of Piraeus (GR)

Research: M. Eugenia Demeglio, Maria Vourou
Development: M. Eugenia Demeglio, Maria Vourou, Pagona Boulbasakou,Themis-Ariadne Andreoulaki
Performance: Maria Vourou, Areti Athanasopoulou, Mary Kate Sheehan
Music: Jeph Vanger