Dance Your Way Out
Martha Pasakopoulou (Greece)
26.07 | 11:00 | Municipal Garden of Chania
27.07 | 20:00 | Sifaka str. – Byzantine walls
Free entrance
Martha is a dance artist from Greece. She holds a BA in dance by the Professional Dance School of N. Kontaxaki in Athens, a Chemistry degree by the National University of Athens, and an MA in Performance by London Contemporary Dance School. She has collaborated with choreographers such as Wally Cardona, Robert Clark, Eva Recacha, Sung Im Her, Seke Chimutengende, Tino Sehgal, Iris Karayan, Ermira Goro, Marina Abramovic amongst others. Since 2017, along with Aris Papadopoulos, they created the company arisandmartha as the artistic collaboration between the two, experimenting with movement and performative language under different conceptual ideas. They have created the works touching.just (Aerowaves 2018), Five Steps to Save the World (2018), Lucy. tutorial for a ritual (Athens & Epidaurous Festival 2019), ALL THAT MATTER or notes on performing friendship (2022), OUT OF SPRING (2022), they returned regularly, each time for more (2023) and SKINFLICK (2024). In 2024 she created the audio performance Dance Your Way Out supported by Flux Laboratory, as part of the ART ATHINA exhibition (curator Nikolas Vamvouklis). Martha is a 2019/20 ARTWORKS Fellow by S. Niarchos Foundation.
Dance Your Way Out is an audio – walking experience, a guided journey for the celebration of movement, and the pleasure of free dance. The participants meet their guides and follow them through fictional voices and guided movement routines, along a public route. Dance Your Way Out draws from the idea of the ‘’dancing plague’’ and dance’s ability to be contagious – a social phenomenon that emerged during the Middle Ages, dragging people into a non-stop dance for several days – and relies on entertainment and the human-body’s ability to fall into rhythm. It suggests a collective experience and an invitation towards a tekno-driven dance in public space. How do we experience our daily journey in the city through movement and sound? The participants navigate as a group following its own rhythm, in between the various temporalities that the landscape suggests. The work proposes a vibrant and loud experience for the participants, but it stays silent for the observers!
Concept & design/ Choreography: Martha Pasakopoulou
Material development & Performance: Christina Karagianni, Despina Sanida Crezia, Martha Pasakopoulou
Composition/ Sound design: Anna – Maria Rammou
A Flux Laboratory production.
With the support of Flux Laboratory.
26 July | 11:00 | Municipal Garden of Chania
27 July | 20:00 | Sifaka str. – Byzantine walls
Martha Pasakopoulou – Dance Your Way Out
