Hard pop
htmylh/ Dimitris Mytilinaios (GR)
27.07 | 22:30 | Mikis Theodorakis theatre
Tickets: 15€ regular – 12€ student, unemployed | For 2 performances
howtomakeyourlifeharder was founded by Dimitris Mytilinaios in 2019 with the aim of producing choreographic works. Hard pop belongs to a series of shows that examine certain strategies of utilizing classical education and technique, insisting on the perception of dance and choreography as a stage language that does not seek narrative, linguistic and symbolic tools of address and reception.
The performance is discovering some possible convergences but also the apparent divergences between classical ballet and dance in pop culture. The choreography is constructed on rhythmic patterns and melodies from 20 pop songs, which are either silenced on stage or recalled deconstructed.
Hard pop is a piece for six roles, five dancers and one “non-dancer”. It has a relatively short duration and sporadic musical accompaniment, while the scene is dominated by the element of measured movement, form and its organization in space.
It is a reconstructed “unison”, a coordinated, continuous group choreography that unfolds in different ways for each dancer and the choreographer approaches unison more as a state of mind than as an absolute visual effect.
The whole project focuses on the concept of extroversion, in which he sees two aspects, the first refers to classical dance, and specifically to the en dehors (fr., eng. outwards) as a basic technical instruction that characterizes ballet, and the second in extroversion as a tool of aggressive marketing (used within the pop culture industry) and the ways in which it is translated into the kinetic “language” of the respective choreographers and dancers.
Choreography: Dimitris Mytilinaios
Dancers: Nefeli Asteriou, Tassos Karahalios, Markella Manoliadi, Dimitris Mytilineos, Maros Stavrinou
Assistant on stage: Ektoras Lygizos
Lighting design: Dimitris Kasimatis
Sound engineering: Manos Lefakis
Production: htmylh / Olga Tsatsouli
Press & Communication Office: Evangelia Skrompola
The production is sponsored by the Greek Ministry of Culture.
With the support of Polina Galopoulou Dance School, Metanira, Dance Days Chania.
27 July | 22:30 | Mikis Theodorakis theatre
htmylh – Hard pop