No emotions
Like a novel’s first paragraph, facial expressions always give clues about a performance. A dancers face is without a doubt the most powerful tool to convey personality, to add nuance to a role and develop a deeper connection with the audience.
The lost continent
Cyprus is the centre of the Mediterranean, a lost continent submerged by a new geopolitics, just as water had covered Atlantis.
Reactivate – Nicosia ART Fair
Reactivate – Nicosia Art Fair is an initiative which aims to bring local artists together, and collectively create a space to host expression and creativity in its various forms. Vision is to bring art closer to the public, in an alternative structure that distances itself from the formal way of exhibiting art.
The disappointed actress
Theatres were closed during the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic. How is the experience of an actress not having access to her world? Theatre is entertainment for someone, culture for others, life for players.
We are the Art
Is Art related to theatres, buildings, funding, business and financial statements? Or Art is related to artists, with their bodies, their braveness, their uninterrupted research, their passions, their culture, their revolutionary goals?
Where are you all?
The limited size of the island, the division, in 2020 the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic. Actresses and actors have a hard life in this warm island. Natalia plays the clown, like every character she desperately needs her audience, her soulmates, her friends. She finds closed theatres and barbed wires.
Karfitses / Pins – Homage to Christoforos Savva
Kartses / Pins is a homage to Christoforos Savva, inspired by three of his works: Circles and Squares, Sphere and Rising Form. A dance–performance, upon observing the fluidity, the play of light and movement within the thickly inhabited canvas of pins of the works by Christoforos Savva.
Humanist Cyprus
There are two anthropological sides in our civilization.
One side is based on the idea that happiness is a sum of usefulness. The other side looks for goodness in things.
Contemporary Dance Fest
Upcoming national and international choreographers join their forces and their talent to give you a surprising and mesmerizing evening full of dance. The result? An innovative mix of powerful performances, life music and instant composition; all brought together in one vibrant festival.
HOME by Dione Roach
A collaborative video installation by Dione Roach and Toya Akpinar which features some of the PERA students. The installation explores ideas of absence and presence, human landscapes set against a more bare, animalistic aspect of nature.
Ròges
In the online world of commercialized culture, the female nipple is categorized as provocative, vulgar or/and annoying. However, this is not a natural flow of nature, but instead a manufactured category inextricably linked to historical conditions where culture is defined as a spectacle and the human body as an object for sale, entirely isolated from the woman’s personality.