EVERGREEN

Inside me,

Familiar and comfortable

I am constantly arriving into the next moment

adjusting to the now

all ways

–Lia Haraki

TOPOGRAPHY

They say that a forest lives inside my house.

Once, my house used to live in a forest.

Our moving away from nature seems to be significant and nostalgia is characterised by the paradox of replacement.

The verb “lose” undeniably accompanies (perhaps even determines) the history of humanity.

Singing birds know this well.

I abandon the houses and other buildings of our geometrical certainty.

I am often drawn to the sensitive voices of dinosaurs.

I am transported into forgotten historical and geographical landscapes.

I create a forest bibelot.

I enter a parenthesis. Beauty kills us out of love.

My body is now becoming a storage space for classified knowledge and detail.

Theatre is, after all, a primitive virus with the intelligence to mutate and adapt.

On the contrary, theatrical space is characterised by a specific dynamic which is architectonically determined (hardly flexible).

The “micro space” of the stage desperately wants to function like the “macro space” of our reality.

The “virtual” nature of the video might allow for this modification to happen.

My body is now becoming a storage space for classified knowledge and detail.

–Christodoulos Panayiotou

Credits  

Choreography and Performance: Lia Haraki

Direction, Costume, Installation, Text: Christodoulos Panayiotou

Music: John Dowland - Flow My Tears, Henry Purcell - The Plaint, Fairy Queen, Tobias Hume - Captain Hume’s Pavan

Supporting Role: Alexander Michael

Lighting Design: Panayiotis Manousis

Camera and Graphic Design: Christina Olympiou

Technical Management: Yiangos Hadjiyiannis

Production: Omada Pelma

Funding: Department of Cultural Services - Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture

Performances  

Premiere: 2 March 2003, Cyprus Dance Platform, Rialto Theatre, Limassol, Cyprus

May 2003, Vidra Theatre, Zagreb, Croatia

May 2003, 6th European Dance Festival, Rialto Theatre, Limassol, Cyprus

January 2004, The Place Resolution - Aerowaves Festival, The Place,

Robin Howard Dance Theatre, London, United Kingdom

June 2004, Tanec Praha Festival, Ponec Theatre, Prague, Czech Republic

June 2004, Julidans - Aerodance, Melkweg Theatre, Amsterdam, Netherlands

November 2004, Euro-scene Leipzig, Schauspielhaus, Leipzig, Germany

November 2004, Palladium Theatre, Malmo, Sweden

Awards & Honours

First Prize for Choreography at the 3rd Cyprus Dance Platform 2003