{"id":19483,"date":"2024-04-18T18:07:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T15:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akropoditi.com\/dancefest\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=19483"},"modified":"2024-07-15T11:13:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T08:13:42","slug":"freedom-at-last-iraqi-bodies-2","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/akropoditi.com\/dancefest\/en\/events\/freedom-at-last-iraqi-bodies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom, at Last &#8211; Iraqi Bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Iraq \u2013 Sweden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Freedom at Last embraces the ultimate. Looming before us, action, and life veiled by stillness. As we sit, silent, anticipating our last freedom, we find that our quest for freedom demands that we endure ourselves, the others, the State, the war, and ultimately the revolution.<br \/>\nThe work of Iraqi Bodies explores the link between movement and gesture, between dance and theatre. The development of their artistic practice has been deeply influenced by the likes of Antonin Artaud, Jerzy Grotowski, Jacques Copeau and Tatsumi Hijikata while retaining a constant dialogue with thinkers, writers and poets such as Eug\u00e8ne Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Charles Baudelaire, Le Comte de Lautr\u00e9amont, William Shakespeare, Henri Bergson, Krishnamurti and many others.<br \/>\nThe poetics of awareness is an absolute given in their continued search for a radical scenic language.<br \/>\nFreedom, at Last was first created for an industrial venue in Gothenburg during the winter of 2022. Since then the piece has found new reiterations with a varying cast of performers and has been presented in Sweden and Italy. For the performance at Akropoditi DanceFest we will be inviting two of\u00a0 Akropoditi Dance Theatre&#8217;s performers, Ariadni Kitsou and Angeliki Ageletaki, to join the rehearsal process and performance of the piece as it finds itself in yet another reiteration in Syros.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Credits<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Director:<\/strong> Anmar Taha<br \/>\n<strong>Dramaturge:<\/strong> Josephine Gray<br \/>\n<strong>With:<\/strong> Maria Freire, Josephine Gray, Ariadni Kitsou, Angeliki Ageletaki<br \/>\n<strong>Set design\/light\/sound\/costume\/props:<\/strong> Anmar Taha &amp; Josephine Gray<br \/>\n<strong>Production:<\/strong> Iraqi Bodies<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Duration:<\/strong> 40 min.<br \/>\n<strong>Trailer:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/774895928\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/774895928<\/a><\/p>\n<div data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"vimeo\" id=\"arve-vimeo-774895928\" style=\"max-width:400px;\" class=\"arve aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"arve-inner\">\n<div style=\"aspect-ratio:135\/76\" class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"arve-ar\" style=\"padding-top:56.296296%\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<iframe allow=\"accelerometer &apos;none&apos;;autoplay;bluetooth &apos;none&apos;;browsing-topics &apos;none&apos;;camera &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-read &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-write;display-capture &apos;none&apos;;encrypted-media &apos;none&apos;;gamepad &apos;none&apos;;geolocation &apos;none&apos;;gyroscope &apos;none&apos;;hid &apos;none&apos;;identity-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;idle-detection &apos;none&apos;;keyboard-map &apos;none&apos;;local-fonts;magnetometer &apos;none&apos;;microphone &apos;none&apos;;midi &apos;none&apos;;otp-credentials &apos;none&apos;;payment &apos;none&apos;;picture-in-picture;publickey-credentials-create &apos;none&apos;;publickey-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;screen-wake-lock &apos;none&apos;;serial &apos;none&apos;;summarizer &apos;none&apos;;sync-xhr;usb &apos;none&apos;;web-share;window-management &apos;none&apos;;xr-spatial-tracking &apos;none&apos;;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" credentialless data-arve=\"arve-vimeo-774895928\" data-lenis-prevent=\"\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/774895928?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963&amp;transparent=0&amp;title=1&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"225.18518518519\" loading=\"lazy\" name=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/774895928?dnt=1&#038;app_id=122963&#038;transparent=0&#038;title=1&#038;byline=0&#038;portrait=0&#038;autoplay=1\" title=\"\" width=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"http:\\\/\\\/schema.org\\\/\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/akropoditi.com\\\/dancefest\\\/en\\\/events\\\/freedom-at-last-iraqi-bodies-2\\\/#arve-vimeo-774895928\",\"type\":\"VideoObject\",\"embedURL\":\"https:\\\/\\\/player.vimeo.com\\\/video\\\/774895928?dnt=1&app_id=122963&transparent=0&title=1&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=1\"}<\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anmar Taha<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Artistic director of Iraqi Bodies. Graduate of the Institute of Fine Arts\u2013Theater Department in Baghdad Iraq 2005. He holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Contemporary Performing Arts from The University of Gothenburg. An experienced director, actor, and light designer, he has brought his remarkable visions to life for the past 12 years. His works have been presented in festivals around Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Josephine Gray<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Artistic director of Iraqi Bodies. She is a graduate of L&#8217;\u00c9coleInternationale de Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de Jacques Lecoq and holds a Master\u2019s Degree in Philosophy from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a Master\u2019s Degree in English from the University of Sheffield. In 2022 she published the anthology Second Nature: Comic Performance and Philosophy together with Dr Lisa Trahair (UNSW, Australia) with Rowman and Littlefield International, London, UK. In 2022 she initiated and directed the studium RADIX which continues on into 2024.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ariadni Kitsou<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She was born in Athens in 1993. She studied in the Department of Education and Early Childhood Education at the University of Patras. She graduated from the Greek National School of Dance in 2016 and since then she has worked as a classical and contemporary dance teacher at various dance schools in Athens.<br \/>\nShe has also worked as an animator in creative activities for children, as well as a teacher in children\u2019s camps and a yoga teacher for children.<br \/>\nSince 2014 she has collaborated with the Hellenic Dance Company under various performances presented at the Concert Hall, the Athens Epidaurus Festival, and has participated in performances at the Benaki Museum and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.<br \/>\nShe lives in Syros. She works as a kindergarten teacher and since 2021 is a member of the Akropoditi group and teaches classical and contemporary dance at the Akropoditi Dance and Performing Arts Centre.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maria Freire<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maria Freire is a performer from Porto, Portugal. She is currently based in Copenhagen where she is completing her 3-year BA in Contemporary Method Acting at CISPA\u2013 Copenhagen International School of Performing Arts. In 2023 she is part of the choreographic research-project Prosopon and performed in the piece TERAS and Freedom at Last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq \u2013 Sweden Freedom at Last embraces the ultimate. Looming before us, action, and life veiled by stillness. As we sit, silent, anticipating our last freedom, we find that our quest for freedom demands that we endure ourselves, the others, the State, the war, and ultimately the revolution. 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