Marathaki Androniki, it’s not about if you will love me tomorrow (2019)

Written by Androniki Marathaki

motto: Dance is not a medium to express something. Dance is present or not present.

Two games in public view that released questions about the relation of dance and its viewing, about the conflicts and the dynamics that activated this absurd relation. The research theme of both parts is under the same title and takes place in a moving platform that changes its inclination according to the translocations of performers’ movement. The platform is also connected to sensors that detect the movement and translate it into sound.

Part 1 is a “duet” of a performer and a disco ball, a self-referential solo of a dance maker and her reflection in a play for balancing the ball and for balancing the voice of her speech or her mind chatting. What will eventually conquer? The world of language or the sound of her play? This performance commented on issues of control and reservation of control, on issues towards evolution and progress against vitality and organic life, on issues of choreography and the ephemerality of dance.

The second part was a quartet of pathways towards a shared centre that finds balance through the re-tracing of gravity and of the “weight”of visual perception. An ever changing and sensorial coordinated common space that invited the performers to divide it according to their premises: their weight, their perception, their observations, their actions and interactions. All of them in relation to falling and balancing, all decisions as part of a place that influences them and is influenced by every choice in locomotion.

The research theme made an effort to examine our weight as something not stable, but as something directly attached to our responses and our availability or not to process the flow of movement and the dance world.

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it’s not about if you will love me tomorrow_part 1

Artistic Direction & performance: Androniki Marathaki

Platform design and manufacture: Filippos Vasileiou

Interactive sound design and composition: Lampros Pigounis

Lightning design: Nysos Vasilopoulos

Stage speech: Kostis Kallivretakis

Speech advice and text : nikos Flessas, Aggelos Petrovas

Assisting the platform manufacturing: Nikos Stathopoulos, Giorgos Vasileiou, Basilis Basileiou

Outside eye: Vitoria Kotsalou

Communication/Press: Vasilis Gretistas