Audio – walking experience – Martha Pasakopoulou

Dance Your Way Out
An audio participatory performance

The event will take place twice during the day and participants will be divided into a morning (10:00) and an evening (19:00) group.
Meeting point: The steps next to the Church of the Metamorphosis.

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 contagiousness – a social phenomenon that emerged during the Middle Ages – and relies on entertainment and the human-body’s ability to fall into rhythm. It suggests a collective experience, towards a tekno-driven dance. It proposes a vibrant and loud experience for the participants, but it stays silent for the observers!

Ages: All ages from 7 – 100+ years old (also for adults with babies in wrap, children who can follow instructions through headphones, elder adults who can walk easily)
Level: All

Photo credit: Spiros Strogilis/ Flux Laboratory

A Flux Laboratory production

Martha Pasakopoulou

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, exploring togetherness on stage and 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) and 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 ATHENS, as part of ART ATHINA exhibition (curator Nikolas Vamvouklis). Martha is a 2019/20 ARTWORKS Fellow by S. Niarchos Foundation.
http://www.arisandmartha.org/