events 25

Open presentation by Apolvere (Artistic Residency program 2025)

“Sull’uscio”

Sull’uscio is the title of an ongoing research project by Apolvere, developed within the framework of performing arts. The collective began this exploration during a brief one-week residency in May 2025, where they initiated work on physical movement, soundscapes, musical composition, and text. Currently, in collaboration with Svesda (Santi Perez), the company is continuing its research with a two-week residency at Akropoditi Dance & Performing Arts Centre.
At the core of this new work lies an interest in the principles of recycling, resisting, and insisting. These concepts serve as guiding coordinates across multiple layers of the process. They shape the company’s approach to movement, spoken and recorded text, and musical composition. Conceptually, they also frame the project’s engagement with the theme of resistance in the context of contemporary European politics and broader Western policy.

Duration: 20-30΄

Apolvere is an emerging dance/performance duo created and co-directed by Arianna Bonacina and Martí Ramis Muñoz. They are coming respectively from Italy and Spain and they met in their education in Salzburg. During their staying in Austria, they started creating together after realising they shared a common vision for scenic art. Their work is centred on creating fragmented realities where detailed dynamics of human actions and interactions are analysed and portrayed through the use of different medias. They mainly treat topics that have solid connection with the socio-political context they come from. This starting point generates a base for transversal reflections as they believe that art forms are deeply interconnected with societies and politics. Their long-term goal as a duo would be to be able to bring their work in different contexts as a way to open up spaces of confronting and discussing about cultural baggage and its implications in ones’ approach to collectivity.

La Soirée
Collective Spine

Dance performance

Three Greek women in Luxembourg in the 90s-00s meet at a soiree. They socialize and dance by their warm fireplace. But there is neither a fireplace, nor Central European wealth, nor the affluence of the 90s-00s, nor are we our parents. So, what’s going on?
“La Soirée” is a dance performance, based on one hand on a movement research in Greek traditional dances tsifteteli and zeimbekiko, through a contemporary dance filter, on the other hand in the conditions of social gathering – party – entertainment.

Choreographer: Malvina Nikoletta Androni
Dancers/co-creators: Olga Kalantzi, Anna Maria Karounou, Anthi Stasinou
Assistant Choreographer – Lighting: Rafailia Bampasidou
Music selection: Malvina Nikoletta Androni
Visuals: CVP

Duration: 35΄

Ticket: 10 euro

SKINFLICK
arisandmartha

Dance performance

SKINFLICK reflects the consumerist, pornographic culture of our time. It explores the complex and triply reciprocal relationship between object, observer, and screen. In SKINFLICK, we expanded our study of visual mechanisms, examining the repetitive production of imagery to shift focus from representation and content to the dynamics of consumption. Consumption itself, of course, is a highly ambiguous act: it can excite, but only briefly, it can satisfy, yet it also fuels a lingering boredom that drives the viewer to seek it repeatedly — a self-consuming cycle of embodied, acquired identities and layered interpretations.

What does it mean to inhabit one’s own body while simultaneously observing it from afar?

CREDITS
Concept: arisandmartha | Aris Papadopoulos & Martha Pasakopoulou
Artistic Collaborator: Anastasios Koukoutas
Material development & Performance: Christina Karagianni, Aris Papadopoulos, Martha Pasakopoulou
Sound Editing, design/ Composition: Jeph Vanger
Lighting Design: Eliza Alexandropoulou
Costume & Objects: Pierre Magendie
Video Score: arisandmartha
Photography: Myrto Apostolidou
Camera / Video Editing/ Trailer: Gabriella Gerolemou | Ivan Ziogas
Production: arisandmartha

Duration: 37΄

ticket prices: 12 normal, 10 reduced*
* Students / Holders of Unemployment Card & Multi – child family Card & European Youth Card & Culture Card (Ministry of Culture) / Disabled People

The production of SKINFLICK was financially supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture (2023-24).
The research for SKINFLICK was supported by Onassis AiR, Athens.
The international tour of SKINFLICK is financially supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture (2024-25).

TRAILER LINK: https://vimeo.com/990919411

arisandmartha is a creative duo based in Athens, Greece, formed by Aris Papadopoulos and Martha Pasakopoulou. Their work blends staged and site-specific dance performances, combining movement, text, and conceptual ideas to explore identity, togetherness, body-as-archive, and ritualistic practices. Known for their use of rhythm, absurd imagery, and re-enactments, they craft unique live experiences. Since 2016, they have created works like SKINFLICK (2024) and ALL THAT MATTER (2021-22), earning recognition as Aerowaves 2018 Artists with touching.just. Their performances have been featured at festivals, including the Athens & Epidaurus Festival, Kalamata International Dance Festival, Zürcher Theater Spektakel and other touring venues in Europe. Both are Stavros Niarchos Foundation ARTWORKS Fellows, with Aris also an Onassis AiR Fellow (2020).
https://arisandmartha.org/skinflick/