Kinitiras Studio will happily accommodate for 2 weeks (19/3-2/4) as a resident artist the Estonian choreographer Kaspar Aus who, along with choreographer Michael Klien from Austria, will hold a series of meetings with students from the Dance Area of Deree-The American College of Greece during the Arts festival 2013.

Kaspar Aus is a dance and video artist, a choreographer born in Estonia. After graduating with a MA in Choreography and Directing from Tallinn University in 2009, he moved to Ireland to take up a full-time artist residency at Daghdha in 2009-2010.He has been interested in developing new ways of thinking about choreography that are connected to other art forms: music, painting, drawing, video; and to his own life in society.

Concerned with choreography and its relation to other art-forms, his practice has so far focused on the creation of a number of solo works: A Man (2009), Enigma (2010); video installations: Lost Space at EV+A (2010) in Limerick, Lost and Holy (2011) at Draakon Gallery in Tallinn; Listening to Blood: The Silence of Movement (2012) at Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, and Green on Red Gallery, Dublin; as well as numerous collaborations with Estonian and Irish composers and fine artists.

Find out more about his work: http://vimeo.com/user5475072

Within the Arts festival 2013, on Friday, 22nd of March 2013 at 19.00 at Black Box Theatre, Communications Building of Deree-The American College of Greece, three choreographers, familiars to Kinitiras Studio, will present an evening of dance performance with students from the Dance Area and following the last year Kinitiras Choreography Lab 2012.

Ana Sanchez-Colberg (Theatre enCorps UK/GR) has been collaborating with the students on the making of the work Corpus VI:Aυτή / Αυτές
with an original sound-score by long time collaborator Kiriakos Spirou. The work is the next in the series of works exploring a choreographic methodology C[o]r[pus]’ that examines the ‘body’ as a separable entity within the performance world: a corpus opus…the body resisting a singular definition: it is at once the body-object, a figure in a landscape, pushed, moved, exhausted, discarded, it is also the subject that moves in space, exposed to judgement, a body that caresses, but equally a body that needs no weapon to cause destruction and pain. A body carved by myths yet lived in ambiguous certainty. In C[o]r[pus] the singular perfect balances the plural, collective imperfect and sees a dance as a process that forms experience in and through, uniquely, movement at a particular moment of life called ‘a performance’.

Leida Taktikou (GR) This one is female. Originally a solo created as part of Kinitiras Choreography Lab 2012 and developed as part of Taktikou’s residency in the Professional Choreographic Development Project a collaboration between Kinitiras Choreography Lab and DEREE in the summer 2012. It is reworked here for a group of dancers, exploring the myth of Odysseus from a female perspective.

Eleni Pantazatou (GR) Efta. Was also originally developed as part of Kinitiras Choreography Lab 2011/2012 and developed further with the support of the Professional Choreographic Development Project at DEREE in summer 2012. The work brings together Pantazatou with dancers Sandra Livara and Zoi Arvanitaki (also past participants of Kinitiras Choreography Lab 2011) with invited dance artists.

Dancers: Maria Sermpou, Maria Louisa Biri, Alexandra Galathri, Elektra Chatzaki, Effie Koutsoulianou, Eva Kyriakopoulou, Bella Sigala

The event is free but reservations are required as there is limited seating.
Please email acolberg@acg.edu to reserve your place.

Please note this is a change to the scheduled dance events published in the festival catalogue.

For information on the Professional Choreographic Development Project see: http://kinitiraschoreolabsummer2012.blogspot.gr/p/professional-choreographic-development.html.