Because this is how I like to dance! – Irini Kourouvani

Movement workshop for people with and without disabilities

Walking, smiling, being.
We meet and we get to know other bodies in space, full and less full, small-big, daring bodies and other more tentative bodies, spontaneous gazes that upon intersection attempt not to avoid one another.
We will give value to rests…
and where they can bring us about.
We will improve, we will play, we will confront our fears and our boundaries. We will pass and bear writ, we will become one with the weight of one another.
We will merely exist in unoccupied from various possible forms our body will take.
We will create and fill the space with configurations that will come to existence through one-two-three or more bodies together.
We will stand still and bear witness of our movement, which we will sometimes dissolve as though it melts reaching the deepest point of diminution of our body, and sometimes expand it with a sensation as though we want to touch the sky.
Walking, we smile anew, we come into being.

OPEN PRESENTATION
We invite you to the open presentation of the workshop “Because this is how I like to dance!” by Irini Kourouvani on Friday 22/07 at 4th Elementary School (Nik. Mandilara 22, Ermoupoli) at 19:30.
(Free entrance)

Ages: All ages
Levels: All levels

Photo credit: Chloe Kritharas

Irini Kourouvani

Irini was born with a very rare medical condition called arthrogryposis in a beautiful village of Ilia/Greece.
She studied political science at the law University of Greece.
In 1992 she was awarded from the Academy of Athens by giving her prize about her positive approach in life despite the difficulties caused by her disability.
She got part in 7 world championships in 4 different categories:
1)Athletics (Athens’97)
2)Athletic Dance (Holland 1998)
3)Power lifting (Malaysia 2002/2010-Korea 2006)
4)Sailing (Holland 2016-Spain 2019)
In 2015 she participated in the first underwater dance performance called “Drop of breath”
She has also danced for prestigious festivals such as Athens Epidaurus Festival and International Kalamata dance festival.
She took also part in several education programs of Olympic Truce.