Friday 14/11, 20:30
K1LL3R INSTINCT
Without language, all we have is a body in revolt, an impulse in action –– a K1LL3R INSTINCT.
K1LL3R INSTINCT discards language to centre on the body and movement as a site of defiance. Movement becomes voice – a pulse, a thrust in resistance – with rhythm, tone, and tension as tools to shift perception and reveal intention. Working with dancer Natalia Vagena and contemporary circus artist Alvin Nilsen Nygaard, choreographer Panos Malactos explores how different bodies, movement vocabularies and music collide and merge to create a shared dramaturgy. K1LL3R INSTINCT is a choreography of protest: political, collective, and deeply personal.
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Duration: 13'
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Choreography: Panos Malactos
Dancers: Natalia Vagena, Alvin Nilsen Nygaard
Music production: Teo Pouzmpouris
Costumes: Christiana Hadjipapa
Lighting design: Vasilis Petinaris
Assisting: Melina Sophocleous
Special thanks to Nick Von Kleist and Elias Adam.
Panos Malactos has been working with the dance and theatre company Peeping Tom in Belgium since 2020. He studied musical theatre at the Bird College and contemporary dance at the Rambert School. He worked with Festspielhaus St. Pölten, Austria (Ohad Naharin/Shahar Binyamini), Liliana Barros (DE), Fresco Dance Company, KENZO Paris, Compagnie Tabea Martin (CH), Andre Uerba (DE), Jason Mabana Dance (UK), Emma Evelein Dance (NL), and collaborated with the Greek director Elias Adam as a performer and choreographer. As a choreographer, Panos has been creating works since 2017. In 2019, he received the New Choreographer Award at the Cyprus Choreography Platform, and since then, his works have been touring all over Europe and New Zealand. In 2024, he premiered his work WE ALL NEED THERAPY at the Onassis Dance Days, and he is supported by the “Outward Turn” Cultural Export Programme of ONASSIS STEGI.
@panosmalactos @panosmalactosdance
ARTIFACT
In the aftermath of a first encounter, desire sits in the throat. Anne Carson says “Give me a world, you have taken the world I was”. This world was once an island of heat, a terrain of pleasure and annihilation. A copper throat opens wide to sing of origin. From that song everything that follows is an attempt to reach—a part to be retrieved.
I have to tell you: When you trace desire to the coordinates of its origin—this island of pure acetylene heat—you’ll find that its worship was aniconic and anthropomorphic, something terrifying and sublime. At night, the oneiric rises from fat Erebus, and delivers visions to the mortals. Choirs of cicadas crescendo with the first light of late August. A confrontation becomes a reconciliation. This is how we return to each other, by remembering how to love. We build weapons. Desire returns once again as an artifact of love.
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Duration: 15'
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Concept, Directing, Performance: Demetris Charalambous
Composition: Quique Rios Ellis
Set design: Demetris Charalambous, Christina Siakola
Dramaturgical support: Marita Anastasi, Quique Rios Ellis
Text: Demetris Charalambous
Mentor: Christos Polymenakos
Lighting design: Panagiotis Manousis
Demetris Charalambous is an experimental artist from Cyprus, currently based in New York City. Through an invented cosmology, his work excavates artifacts of desire that navigate the surreal, the mythical, and the absurd. His work has been presented at historic spaces in the New York downtown scene, including Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church, Mabou Mines, the Center for Performance Research, Performance Space New York, Mark Morris Dance Center, and telos.haus, as well as on digital platforms such as NOWNESS and SUBMISSION Magazine. Demetris holds a BFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
@detherealc
BLUE
“Blue like the sky
Blue like the sea
Blue, like peace
Blue like the shirts you wear…”
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A woman comes on stage to talk about blue.
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With her, four performers share fragments of life and co-create an ecology of personal and collective narratives using the tools of breath, speech, music, movement, and image.
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As the body passes through the transformations of time, it recalls gestures, postures, and steps in an attempt to articulate the unspeakable and experience all time as present. The performers tune in to inhabit a kinetic soundscape of a meditative pulse, while, through associations, pauses, and repetitions, they converse with the concepts of time, space, and the intangible.
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Blue becomes a journey, an encounter, a confession, a meditation.
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Duration: 25'
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Concept, dramaturgy, texts, choreographic direction: Andromachi Dimitriadou Lindahl
Music composition, performance: Giorgos Bizios
Dance, co-creation, performance: Fouli Stylianidou, Loizos Konstantinou, Andromachi Dimitriadou Lindahl
Video art: Christoforos Larkos
Photography: Pavlos Vryonides
Asomates Dynameis dance company (disembodied forces) borrows its name from Byzantine angels to signify the spiritual energy it seeks to express through dance. Recognising the body as a place where human experience can be traced, its dance transforms into a vehicle for remembrance and introspection. Body memory, the notions of identity, loss, dystopia, and sense of belonging are themes that often concern the choreographer and constitute her poetic universe. Asomates Dynameis has participated in various events and festivals in Sweden, Greece, France and India.
Sprt!
Sprt! is a solo of overflow, a choreography of formal collapse. In a present where the end has already taken place, the body overflows and leaks a continuous, nonsensical failure.
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Duration: 15'
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Concept & Choreography: Dimitris Chimonas
Performer & Creative collaborator: Dory Samuel
Scenic & Lighting design: Demetris Shammas
Music direction: Stelios Antoniou
Dramaturgical support: Seta Astreou-Karides
Movement advisor: Belinda Papavasileiou
Dimitris Chimonas works across theatre, performance, film, sculpture, and situations. His practice employs theatrical conventions as tools for participation, spectatorship, and the construction of collectivities within dominant cultural canons. Blending parody, precision, and provocation, his work examines tensions between the individual and the collective, agency and choreography. He has presented work at the Edinburgh Fringe, Benaki Museum, Young Artists Biennale, Prague Quadrennial, Cabaret Voltaire, GfZK Leipzig, Open House Festival, De Appel, and the Venice Architecture Biennale, amongst others. He co-founded and curates Sessions, a queer performance series that occupies spaces, transforming them into stages for radical expression. In 2024, he received the Aerowaves Startup Forum Prize and is currently pursuing an MA in Art Praxis at the Dutch Art Institute.
Saturday 15/11, 20:30
US AGAINST
every step that begins here reaches the centre of the earth
every step that begins here reaches the centre of the universe
every step that begins here carries another that begins here
and reaches the centre of the earth or the universe
the step becomes steps
ο u r s t e p s
tearing through earth and universe,
beginning here and reaching nowhere – or somewhere, truly
only they persist
and persist
until our steps become the whole world.
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Duration: 20'
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Choreography: Diamanto Hadjizacharia in collaboration with the dancers
Performers: Elina Karacosta, Julie Charalambidou, Georgia Konstantinou Clark, Maria Savva, Diamanto Hadjizacharia
Original music composition: Marcos Shukuroglou
Assistant choreographer: Maria Papageorgiou
Artistic collaborator: Marita Anastasi
Costume designer: Caterina Ttakka
Lighting designer: Aleksandar Jotovic
Photo: Andreas Nikolaou
Diamanto Hadjizacharia (Limassol, 1997) is a Cyprus-based dancer and performance maker. She graduated with a BA in Contemporary Dance from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London and gained a diploma in Choreography from Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD). She holds a Master of Arts degree in Performance Practices from ArtEZ University of the Arts. As a dancer, she collaborated with the choreographers Hofesh Shechter, Hagit Yakira, James Finnemore, and Evi Demetriou. Some of her mentors were Sabina Holzer (AT), Patricia Apergi (GR), Mary Nunan (IE) and Pavlos Kountouriotis (NL). Her artistic practice emphasises the moving body while embracing a multidisciplinary approach to explore themes of human connection in a social context. Her choreographies have been presented at festivals around Europe with the most important being in Greece (Eleusis 2023 European Capital of Culture, ARC FOR DANCE 2022 & 2025), Portugal (Lugar Futuro 2024), Austria (New Faces New Dances 2021), the UK (Resolution 2020) and Cyprus (Open House Festival 2024, Cyprus Choreography Platform 2021 & 2023, Cyprus Choreography Showcase 2022 & 2024, On Bodies Festival 2021, Summer Dance Festival 2020 & 2021, Dance Waves Festival 2019).
@diamantohz
AGRINO LOUNGE
A surreal cabaret of love and transformation, Agrino Lounge reimagines Mallarmé’s L’Après-midi d’un Faune and Debussy’s score in a glitzy Mediterranean nightclub, full of feathers, sequins, and synths. At its centre is the radiant cabaret queen whose world unravels with the arrival of an admirer — a man transforming into a Cypriot mouflon. In her dressing room, desire, fear, and awakening collide. Is he real, or a figment of her longing? Blending dance, drag, and surrealism, Agrino Lounge explores identity and the urge to live beyond expectation. It dances between narrative and abstraction, queer aesthetics and myth. Visually rich and emotionally charged, it asks: Can fantasy reveal truth? Can imagined love awaken who we truly are, or who we want to be?
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Duration: 15'
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Choreography: Sotirios Panagoulias
Dancers: Sotirios Panagoulias, Chris Mills
Music: Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, Jack Teagarden, Claude Debussy
Sound design: Teo Pouzbouris
Costumes & Set: Sotirios Panagoulias
Lighting design: Alexander Jotovic
Mentor: Christos Polymenakos
Sotirios Panagoulias began his dance training at the Limassol Municipal Dance Centre and earned a BA in Modern Ballet from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He performed with Scottish Ballet and Scottish Opera before dancing in the Czech Republic with Ballet Prague Junior, Prague Chamber Ballet, and South Bohemian Ballet, exploring classical, contemporary, opera, and musical theatre works. Currently, he is a lecturer in Ballet at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and is an associate tutor in Dance Education at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on gender in dance, traditional culture, and costume in performance. Sotirios continues his choreographic work in Cyprus and the UK, with recent works including Fragmental, Concerto 2.0, The Gardener on a July Day, The Burden, Were you sleeping?.
@sotirispanagoulias
Tormentful Invisibility
Within a timeless scape, a false calling emerges; a desire to pierce silence. The arrival of a consuming darkness unleashes a haunting energy, which gradually removes light and life, to leave a trail of bodies and invade their most intimate of spaces. This surreal techno tragedy comments upon current society’s apathy towards mass destruction, including silly trends and contemporary insanities, to imply an impending apocalyptic end.
The work is based on the creators ongoing research since 2017 currently integrated into his postgraduate choreographic studies.
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Duration: 22'
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Research, directing, choreography: Panayiotis Tofi in collaboration with the performers
Artistic mentor: Tony Thatcher
Premiere performers: Damianos Aggelos Efstathiou, Danae Vassilakakou, Panagiotis Tasoulis
Research & development performers: Damianos Aggelos Efstathiou, Sophia Mouzoura, Panagiotis Tasoulis
Music composer: Andreas Economides
Text by: Panayiotis Tofi
Voice/Narration: Anna Yiagiozi
Costume design: Rea Olympiou
Lighting design: Panagiotis Manousis
Choreographer’s assistant: Sophia Mouzoura
Promotion photographer: Theodora Iacovou
Special thanks: Maria Michaelidou School of Dance, Panos Topsides
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The work is suitable for 12+.
The work contains strong language, and intense sound and light.
Panayiotis Tofi is a choreographer whose research interests centre upon acts of concealment, dispossession and decentralisation. His work highlights the beauty and exhaustion of the human body, to emphasise the uncanny presence of the unfamiliar. Known for his subtle minimalism, poetic text, elements of romanticism and intense physicality, Panayiotis has made significant contributions to contemporary dance. Originally trained as a visual designer, Panayiotis graduated from Trinity Laban with a First Class Bachelor of Contemporary Dance and a Diploma in Dance Studies. He is a highly respected theatre movement designer and director, awarded as ‘Creator of the Year’ by Cyprus Theatre Organisation in 2018 for his artistic versatility, imagination and boldness towards experimentation. Based on his choreographic research and evolving movement vocabulary, Panayiotis has led workshops in Stockholm, Naples, Athens, Hermoupolis, Limassol and Nicosia, sharing his innovative approaches with dancers and performers across Europe.
@panayiotistofi
Ήςhοι
The piece Ήςhοι explores the soundscape through the sounds of the body, the voice, and the mind, highlighting friendship, human connections, and the different harmonies of life. Each performer creates distinct sounds and rhythms. Even when we move simultaneously, the acoustic experience remains unique for each person, as we do not always follow the same rhythm of life and expression. The composition reveals the inner flows and rhythm of life, inviting the audience into a vivid, multidimensional sonic experience.
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Duration: 15'
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Concept & Choreography: Melina Ioannidou
Dancers / Performers: Melina Ioannidou, Myrianthi Panagiotou, Irini Leondiou, Christina Nikou, Louiza Andreou
Music composition: Bianca Casaburi
Mentor: Christos Polymenakos
Dramaturgy: Natasa Georgiou
Costume design: Maria Hadjiloizou
Costume maker: Eleni Papavassiliou Sfika
Photography: Michalis Petrou
Melina Ioannidou graduated in 2022 from ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem, Netherlands, with a BA in Dance. She has created works such as To the Rhythm of Our Soul, Golden Frame, A Shoe from the Homeland 1 and 2, and MATCH POINT, presented at the Cyprus Choreography Platform (2023) and the Gothenburg Festival in Sweden (2024). As a dancer, she has collaborated with Corneliu Ganea, Dunja Jocic, Dario Tortorelli, Olga Markari, Interact Dance Co., Philippe Saire, Diastasis Dance Group, and Evi Panayiotou. She represented Cyprus in European projects, including Re-connect Dance and Theatre Training in Dialogue with the Global South (Italy, 2021) and took part in a residency at Maison de la Danse, France, curated by Angelin Preljocaj. Since 2017, she has been co-directing Moving Arts Centre, teaching, choreographing, and leading workshops in creative movement.
@melinajoann
Sunday 16/11, 20:30
How to Dwell on Everything 101
How to Dwell on Everything 101 is a contemporary dance work that explores the intellectual and emotional exhaustion caused by over-analysis. It tells the story of Christopher, whose life is defined by his relentless effort to balance personal life and work. Through Christopher’s example, the piece opens a broader conversation about the frantic pace many adopt in order to survive, tying personal worth to professional recognition. The work invites us to examine the narratives we tell ourselves — and the cost of constantly trying to keep everything under control.
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“His hopes his only nourishment.
His desires his own drought.
His thoughts what fuel his narratives,
And the merry goes around.”
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Duration: 15'
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Choreography, Performance, Text: Alexandros M. Kyriazis
Music Composition & Soundscape: Nektarios Rodosthenous
External Observer & Advisor: Adonis Kyriakides
Mentor: Christos Polymenakos
WHOOSH
A few uncomfortable memories, a sudden movement, and a rushing sound - WHOOSH unfolds as a movement exploration, creating a fluid space of a female experience in time. A sudden movement grows into a shifting state, tracing residues of the body archive and testing resilience. As it evolves in different directions, resisting and surrendering to gravity, the body moves through softness and harshness, tenderness and violence. At times the body relives pleasure and at other times it casts off the weight of memories, seeking to transform the unheard into sound. WHOOSH.
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Duration: 15'
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Choreographer & Performer: Charis Iacovou
Composition & Sound artist: Antonia Kattou
Set & Prop design: Mariza Daouti, Eftychios Savvidis
Lighting design: Panayiotis Manousis
Mentor: Christos Polymenakos
Promo photo: Eftychios Savvidis
Sincere thanks to Petros Konnaris, KÆNA Athens and Tatiana Anaxagorou.
Charis Iacovou is a movement/performance artist, as well as an architect. Her artistic practice focuses on exploring tools of improvisation and composition, as well as on redefining the framework and form of performance. Her recent inquiries revolve around repetition, contemporary life and existence. She has presented solo works at the On Bodies Festival (2021, 2023). In 2021, she participated as a resident artist in the Open Up Performance Lab (Pierides Foundation / NiMAC), curated and organised by Lia Haraki. In 2022, she was selected as a resident artist for the Artists in Process: Alive programme at Dancehouse Lefkosia. During 2023–2024, she took part in the workshops and performance events of Arianna Economou: Revisiting Tools / Tending Scores, created in collaboration with Pavlos Kountouriotis and Petros Konnaris, respectively.
Pangolin, something rolling
The destructive nature of civilised human “nature”. An aggressive nature towards the environment and all that it comprises. A nature so aggressive that it ends up turning threateningly against itself. A self-destructive nature.
A work inspired by the endangered scaly animal called Pangolin, which is ruthlessly hunted for its hard shell, used in medicine to save lives. A continuous, agonising existential effort of the pangolin to defend itself against environmental threats, claiming its survival against superior natures.
Something that flows: Because the cycle of life is, above all, its constant ability to endlessly regenerate itself. An obligation to save and not to torture.
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Duration: 23'
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Choreography: Elena Christodoulidou
Dancers in creation: Julie Charalambidou, Joanna Savva, Elina Karacosta, Andrea Manti
Music: Haris Sophocleous
Visual art: Alexandros Demetriou
Costumes: Fani Mouzaki
Lighting design: Aleksandar Jotovic
Elena Christodoulidou created Amfidromo Chorotheatro in 2002 and Egomio Performing Arts Centre in 2013. At Egomio, she teaches, creates, hosts other artists and develops projects and workshops for professional dancers, educators, people with disabilities and elderly people. Her works were presented in Europe, America and Asia. She was an academic for 17 years, teaching creative dance at the Education Department of the University of Cyprus. In 2016, she became a certified trainer of GYROKINESIS® and in 2023, of the GYROTONIC® method. She is the curator of Dance Waves and Moving Images Videodance Festival. She often collaborates with Cyprus Theatre Organisation (THOC) and independent theatre groups as a movement director and choreographer.
2974
2974 is a work-in-progress and builds on Klark’s earlier work, The New Buffer Zone. In this new iteration, Elias borrows a timeline from the far future to represent an expanded version of a buffer zone that covers the entire island of Cyprus and to highlight a dystopian world where the wonder and horror of science fiction unfold in a hyper-sensorial setting. With the desire to turn catastrophe into a question mark, the young choreographer reimagines the psychogeography of the Cypriot buffer zone in a hot, summer, dead paradise a millennium later. An abstract vision that conflates the spectators and performers into the same liminal space. Following a choreographic allegory of a land and a country that is no one’s but a total suspension.
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Duration: 15'
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Choreographer & performer: Elias Klark
Performer & co-creator: Avgoustina Triarou
Sound design: Demitra Sofroniou
Costume design: Hayden Bouvet
Elias Klark's artworks reflect themes of established colonies, national diasporas and militarised states. Oscillating between a self-existent agency and the paradox of its failure, his research traverses the complex geopolitical issues of his birthplace and his experience of compulsory service in the Cypriot National Guard. His performances are sensed through transformation and liminal spaces, notions associated with the transcendence of imaginary buffer zones that help us visualise different types of revolution. Through his practice, he promotes tools to enhance relationships and form liberated bodies, disposing of a creative world for collective coexistence. Elias is a dancer and performance artist based between the Netherlands and Cyprus. He will graduate from the SNDO and ECD programmes at the Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam in 2026.
FARMA
The choreographic work FARMA is inspired by the figure of Pan and his mythological dimension as the god of nature, herds, and instinct. On stage, the shepherd figure emerges as a symbol between order and chaos, guiding the “flock” through a liminal space reflecting social and personal struggles. The choreography blends ritual gestures, animalistic movements, and physical confrontations with urban elements and streetwear aesthetics, creating a stage environment that unites the primordial with the contemporary. Within this hybrid landscape, wildness, cyclicality, and transformation become the language of movement. The work invites the audience on a mythical journey exploring the human relationship with chaos, instinct, and the quest for freedom.
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Duration: 30'
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Concept & Choreography: Andria Michaelidou
Dancers: Anna Nicolaou, Maria Chrysostomou, Ivi Hadjivassiliou, Myrianthi Panagiotou, Apollo Anastasiades, Giannis Economides, Mike Demetriou
Sound: Andreas Rodosthenous
Thanks to Evi Panayiotou and The Dance Central
Andria Michaelidou (Limassol, 1995) graduated from the University of Nicosia with a BA in Dance. She was a member of the contemporary dance company Carabdanza in Madrid and has collaborated as a dancer with artists such as Gonzalo Diaz, Jessica Russo, Laura Ginatempo, Fredo Belda, Evi Panayiotou, Milena Ugren Koulas, and Lia Haraki. In recent years, she has focused exclusively on choreography, presenting her works in theatres and dance festivals in Cyprus and abroad. For her piece titled ISOLATION, she received the “Young Choreographer of the Year” award at the 20th Cyprus Choreography Platform (2020), and the work was nominated for the “Excellence in Performance” Award at the STOFF Fringe Festival 2021 in Stockholm.
@a.michaelidou