That Is All I Stand Up For
In collaboration with U(R)TOPIAS Academy of Choreography
Artistic residency 25.07 – 01.08
Mairi Giannoula (Greece)
01.08 | 20:30 | Old French School – Chalepa area
Free entrance
Dance Days Chania and U(R)TOPIAS Academy of Choreography have formed a new collaboration and offer artistic residency at the festival during which 2 selected choreographers for 8 days will deepen their creative process, presenting the result during the 15th Dance Days Chania with free entrance to the public at the former French School. Greek choreographers in their first creative steps have the opportunity to develop in time, enrich, adapt and present in premiere form, their works as they were originally composed in Elefsina for the years 2024-2025.
What happens in a place where everything has already happened?
Starting the research from Elefsina, I’m moving from the reality of a yard, at the place where physical exhaustion takes place, with the purpose of transformation and the anticipation of a mysterious “something,” exploring how imagination is summoned as a means of survival and change.
The silence of the body in the process of intensive effort, a defined space with indefinite possibilities, contribute to a field of battle, prayer, indignation, promise of not giving up before giving everything in the disorder of tenderness . A song dedicated to Elefsina and the lands that hurt and are hurting,a dreamy transition to the elusive dream, to the way out, to the moment when the body is everything and nothing, to fatigue, to hope, to indignation, to a transcendental step towards the unknown.
Choreography / Performance / Lyrics: Mairi Giannoula
Music / Video Teaser / Photography: Alexis Falantas
Set Design: Eudokia Makri, Fofo Mastori
U(R)TOPIAS Academy of Choreography is implemented in the framework of the Moving Europe program of Eleusis 2023 – European Capital of Culture. The programme is realised as part of the Greece 2.0 National Recovery and Resilience Plan with funding from the European Union – NextGenerationEU.
1 August | 20:30 | Old French School – Chalepa area
Mairi Giannoula – That Is All I Stand Up For
