Diptych: Who am I today? | C for Clay – Prosxima Dance Company
Greece
The performance will be followed by an open discussion with the audience.
Who am I today?
Choreographer Demy Papathanassiou invites audiences into a deeply personal exploration of identity, drawing on the lived experiences of Crips and their relationship to mental health.
Each day in the studio begins with a question: “Who am I today?” From this starting point, the work asks what a Crip or different body can bring to the stage, and whether its mental health is experienced differently from others.
Through movement, reflection, and raw honesty, Who Am I Today? confronts themes of trauma, acceptance, discovery, and personal growth — offering a space for both individual and collective connection.
Duration: 27 minutes
Credits
Concept/choreography/performance: Demy Papathanassiou
Composer: Avgoustinos Michalopoulos Stathopoulos
Artistic collaboration: Maria Viniaratou, Maria Koliopoulou
Consultant choreographer: Katerina Gevetzi
Lighting consultant: Thomas Oikonomakos
Residency support: LIMINAL
Production: Prosxima Dance Company
Premiere: BeyondDisDance Festival, Synergio Venue, Limassol, January 13, 2024
*Definition of Crip: A term historically used to stigmatize and oppress disabled people. It has been reclaimed by some disabled people. It should only be used with permission from the community or individual to whom it refers. For the choreographer, it is a political statement rejecting the normative.
Accessibility: tactile navigation for people with visual impairments, as well as creative tools for deaf people and people with visual impairments.
C for Clay
A solo work choreographed for and with the performer Vivi Christodoulopoulou exploring notions of labor and action as two components of human existence and their interrelation towards a revelation and a human transformation.
Duration: 20 minutes
Credits
Choreography: Maria Koliopoulou
Performer: Vivi Christodoulopoulou
Sound design: Yiannis Isidorou
Dramaturgy consultant: Betina Panagiotara
Artistic collaborator: Mariza Vinieratou
Light design: Thomas Economacos
Photo: Vicky Papaggeli
Production: Prosxima Dance Company
Premiere: Deree Black Box Theatre 2016, as part of the series of ONE-OFF DANCE[S] #2
Further presentations: Theater Aan Het Spui, Den Haag, Netherlands as part of Danceable#3, Holland Dance Festival 2019, where it has been supported by Onassis Stegi, in the context of the European network Europe Beyond Access, which is co-funded by the “Creative Europe” program.
The work is further developed and presented during the BeyondDisDance at Polychoros Synergeio, Limassol 8.12.2024. Creative Accessibility Tools Applied with the collaboration of Liminal.
Accessibility: tactile navigation for people with visual impairments, as well as creative tools for deaf people and people with visual impairments.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/1121797360
The Dance Diptych was presented at the 1st Festival of the University of Patras’ Unit for Equal Access, “The Art of Diversity,” on May 27th at 18.30 in Amphitheater I4 of the Conference & Cultural Center of the University of Patras and at the 12th Mpart Festival in Larisa, on 11 September 2025.
Further presentations include on May 8th 2026 _ University of Crete, Rethimno, Greece as part of a broader initiative by Prosxima Dance Company, an artistic and educational research program, consisting of workshops, performances and lectures dedicated to disability and inclusion in Universities in Greece, supported by John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation in the framework of “Points of Support”.
Prosxima Dance Company
Prosxima Dance Company, under the artistic direction of choreographer M. Koliopoulou, works at the intersection of the performing arts and social engagement, collaborating with vulnerable communities to create accessible productions. The company presents work in Greece and internationally with mixed ensembles of dancers with and without disabilities. Their work has been commissioned by the: Athens Epidaurus Festival, Onassis Stegi, The Ephorate of Antiquities of West Attica, Piraeus and Islands, ‘All of Greece One Culture’ programm, International Festival of Contemporary Dance in Algiers, Stopgap Dance Company.
Prosxima Dance Company is leading an artistic and educational research program consisting of workshops, performances and lectures dedicated to disability and inclusion in Universities in Greece with the support John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation in the framework of “Points of Support”. The program was hosted in 2024–2025 by the University of Patras, co-organized by the M.Sc. in Public Health and the Laboratory of Speech and Drama of the Department of Theatre Studies, as well as the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, co-organized by the Postgraduate Program “Greek and World Theatre: Dramaturgy, Performance, Education.” In 2026 the program is hosted by the Departments of Early Childhood Education at the Universities of Thessaly and Crete.
The company is regularly subsidised by the Greek Ministry of Culture.