(Research and Development Stage – interrupted due to Covid19)

Stage 1: Residency at LoStudio (Switzerland), in collaboration with Kinitiras (Athens)

Since I became a parent in 2017 I’ve started reconfiguring the constellation of relationships that I am part of. I realised how relationships that develop throughout life could be looked at as complexities, made of intricate balances and factors.

Hence, the idea: I would like to work in the studio with my father, who is non adept to the performing arts.

Throughout my career I’ve had the chance of working so far with professional dancers, as well as people who had never gone through any sort of performative training.

I’ve become very fascinated with the latter. I feel that working with non-trained performers offers on the one hand the possibility for a trained performer of exploring and re-enhabiting modes of utilisation of the body that can be forgotten, while to the non-trained performer the possibility of becoming slowly aware of the idea of embodiment of aware choices.

The approach in the studio will be mixed in methodologies and will involve surely improvisation, in the respect of my father’s kinetic capabilities. Surely, I intend to merge the research towards a performance (a duet or a solo). Moreover, I intend to collect all different forms of documentation and possibly present them as a stand-alone outcome of this process. 

Through this residency, I would like to research the man himself in a different context, offering him the possibility of experiencing something new that is so close and integral to who I am, and at the same time learn from him how to re-enhabit forgotten patterns in my body. The research will look into the concept of parenthood, filial and parental love.”