Street Horizons
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A collective walk, a map in becoming, starting at the Piraeus train station and finishing at the Piraeus Municipal Theatre square. The spectators are invited to follow along, actively participating and move together with the dancers, generating a chain reaction of dancing, movement, and walking compositions. The initiative of the Street Horizons brings together active social groups of Piraeus, in their shared effort to gaze at the horizon in a different manner.
The choreography is conceived as a way of collective organization. Dance is viewed as a social event. Individuals become a source of inspiration, a context wherein people can dance, co-exist and suggest a new “horizon” of collaboration, expression, and communication. The potentialities for freedom of the body are explored by way of dancing within the very context that constrains the body. Through actively involving human bodies in the negotiation of freedom, dancers and audience, curious and bewildered but unhesitant, will explore these potentialities. The key element is readiness to respond to what is gradually revealed.
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Concept - Coordination - Artistic collaboration: Vassia Valkanioti - Vitoria Kotsalou
together with
Iris Nikolaou, Piraeus residents, Open School of Immigrants' students, employees and beneficiaries of Praksis Open Day center for the Homeless, of Piraeus Educational Center for Persons with Disabilities, members of Piraeus' Solidarity organisation, as well as students of Alexandros Hatziaras' Higher School of Dance, Piraeus Music School, Piraeus Municipal Music Conservatory, ensembles of the National Conservatory of Piraeus (Vambeat and Hesperia Guitar Ensemble - Karagiannopoulos Frangoulis), members of Traditional Dances group Igechoro, Bulerinas flamenco group and Pireactive.
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Performance: June 2017 - streets around Piraeus Train Station and Piraeus Municipal Theater
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Bridging Diversities - Piraeus Municipal Theater
Athens and Epidaurus Festival 2017 - Opening to the City - Piraeus
