LARSEN C | Christos Papadopoulos | ОNE DANCE WEEK 2021

LARSEN C | Christos Papadopoulos | ОNE DANCE WEEK 2021
22/10/2021 - Boris Hristov House of Culture
LARSEN C
The dancers are constantly moving, their movements are suggestive and fluid like vibrations resonating in space, like waves pulsating along with all other elements, the light, the set and the sounds. The movement is not meant to happen only on stage, it is an invitation to the public, a mesmerizing operation on perception. Landscapes, bodies and sounds come and go; approach and withdraw. The transformation happens rather gradually, catching us off guard multiple times, pretending that nothing happens while everything spins. The aim is to take us through the end, not so much to a different place but rather to a new state.
Larsen C is part of Christos Papadopoulos’ long excavation, within the stage, for qualities that easily pass unnoticed. The initial metaphor is an iceberg melting within itself, disappearing in its movement, endlessly. It is about a form dissolving or rather a body embrassing the movements that are sinking within. That is the desire that drives “Larsen C” the dance piece; to achieve a profound and natural quality of movement and reach that point where movement is simultaneously lost and found, dissolving and emerging, meaningless and meaningful. Papadopoulos' aim is to bring forward a state of internalised movement, close to everyday experience. That is why in one way or another his works resonates this meditative quality of our everyday routines, when the intention is more profound yet unnoticed or distant. This quality is understood more like an ubiquitus vibration or a cosmic flow and less like a choreographic decision. That’s why it is constructed as a multilayered experience, outlining an inescapable state, enchanting, puzzling or even disturbing by its fatality.
Furthermore, ambiguous elements are introduced, gestures and motions with liminal qualities in order to amplify this constantly shifting experience. There is this familiar treatment of movement as a tool for exploring the mind; in this case, though, it is pushed further without spectacular additions. The choreographer is simply exploring further the state of transition; he is putting the accent on the transition from one movement to another, from intuition to action.
Bodies are changing positions without a visible intention, an intention clearly felt, undoubtedly present yet suggestive and fluide. This piece is an invitation to meditate, open up the mind to a multitude of associations, images, memories and thoughts that never stop moving.
CREDITS:
Concept & Choreography: Christos Papadopoulos
With the performers : Maria Bregianni, Chara Kotsali, Georgios Kotsifakis, Sotiria Koutsopetrou, Alexandros Nouskas Varelas, Ioanna Paraskevopoulou, Adonis Vais
Music & Sound Design: Giorgos Poulios
Set Design: Clio Boboti
Lighting Design: Eliza Alexandropoulou
Costume Design: Angelos Mentis
Dramaturgy Consultant: Alexandros Mistriotis
Choreography Consultant : Martha Pasakopoulou
Assistant Set Designer: Filanthi Bougatsou
Production Management: Rena Andreadaki, Zoe Mouschi
Tour Lighting Head: Stavros Kariotoglou
Set and Sound Technician: Michalis Sioutis
Tour Manager: Konstantina Papadopoulou
International Distribution: Key Performance
A project by Christos Papadopoulos // LEON KAI LYKOS
Produced by Onassis Stegi- Athens (GR)
Supported by the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès within the framework of the New Settings Program
Coproduced by A-CDCN (Les Hivernales - CDCN d’Avignon, La Manufacture - CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux · La Rochelle, L’échangeur - CDCN Hauts-de-France, Le Dancing CDCN Dijon Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Chorège I CDCN Falaise Normandie, Le Pacifique - CDCN Grenoble - Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes, Touka Danses - CDCN Guyane, Atelier de Paris / CDCN, Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix - Hauts-de-France, POLE-SUD CDCN / Strasbourg, La Place de la Danse - CDCN Toulouse / Occitanie, La Maison CDCN Uzès Gard Occitanie, La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne) (FR); La Briqueterie - CDCN du Val-de-Marne (FR); Théâtre de la Ville , Paris (FR); Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels (BE); Julidans, Amsterdam (NL); Romaeuropa Festival (IT); Théâtre Jean Vilar de Vitry-sur-Seine (FR); NEON Organization for Culture and Development (GR); Festival Aperto / Fondazione I Teatri - Reggio Emilia (IT); Festival de Otoño de la Comunidad de Madrid (ES)
In collaboration with Département du Val-de-Marne, as part of the creation residency aid (FR), the Lavanderia a Vapore choreographic residencies projects (IT) and additional coproducers to be finalised.
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ONE DANCE WEEK 2021 is part of the Legacy Program of Plovdiv - European Capital of Culture 2019.
LARSEN C and FUCUS GREECE are presented with the support of ONASSIS STEGI.
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