The works we will see at the 25th edition of the Cyprus Choreography Platform, November 14, 15 and 16 at Rialto Theatre

The 25th Cyprus Choreography Platform is approaching and choreographers, together with all other contributors, are working intensively to present to the public their new choreographic proposals, inspired by existential and social themes.

The Cyprus Choreography Platform is an annual choreography institution of the Deputy Ministry of Culture, organized by the Department of Contemporary Culture and Rialto Theatre.

Detailed Performance Program:

14.11 FRIDAY 20:30

K1LL3R INSTINCT (13’)

Choreography: Panos Malactos

Performers: Natalia Vagena, Alvin Nilsen Nygaard

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.

ARTIFACT   (15’)

Concept, Direction, Performance: Demetris Charalambous

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. 

BLUE (25’)

Concept, Dramaturgy, Texts, Choreographic Direction: Andromachi Dimitriadou Lindahl (Asomates Dynameis)

Dance, Co-creation, Performance: Fouli Stylianidou, Loizos Constantinou, Andromachi Dimitriadou Lindahl 

“Blue like the sky

  Blue like the sea

  Blue, like peace

  Blue like the shirts you wear…”

A woman comes on stage to talk about blue. 

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.

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.

Blue becomes a journey, an encounter, a confession, a meditation.

Sprt! (15’)

Concept & Choreography: Dimitris ChimonasPerformance & Creative Collaboration: Dory Samuel

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.

15.11 SATURDAY 20:30

US AGAINST (20’)

Choreography: Diamanto Hadjizacharia in collaboration with the dancers

Performers:  Elina Karacosta, Julie Charalambidou, Georgia Konstantinou Clark, Maria Savva, Diamanto Hadjizacharia

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.

Agrino Lounge (15’)

Choreography: Sotirios Panagoulias

Performers: Sotirios Panagoulias, Chris Mills

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?

Tormentful Invisibility  (25’)

Suitable for ages 12+

Research, directing, choreography: Panayiotis Tofi in collaboration with the performers

Premiere performers: Damianos Aggelos Efstathiou, Danae Vassilakakou, Panagiotis Tasoulis

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.

Ήςhοι 15’

Idea & Choreography: Melina Ioannidou

Dancers/ Performers: Melina Ioannidou, Myrianthi Panagiotou, Irini Leondiou, Christina Nikou, Louiza Andreou 

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.

16.11 SUNDAY 20:30

How to Dwell on Everything 101  (15’)

Choreography, Performance, Text: Alexandros M. Kyriazis

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.

“His hopes his only nourishment. 

His desires his own drought. 

His thoughts what fuel his narratives, 

And the merry goes around.”

WHOOSH  (15’ )

Choreographer & Performer: Charis Iacovou

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.

Pangolin, something rolling (23’)

Choreography: Elena Christodoulidou 

Dancers in creation: Julie Charalambidou, Joanna Savva, Elina Karacosta, Andrea Manti

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.

2974 (15’)

Choreographer & performer: Elias Klark 

Performer & co-creator: Avgoustina Triarou

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.

FARMA 30’

Concept & Choreography: Andria Michaelidou 

Dancers: Anna Nicolaou, Maria Chrysostomou, Ivi Hadjivassiliou, Myrianthi Panagiotou, Apollo Anastasiades, Giannis Economides, Mike Demetriou 

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.

The main program is once again enriched this year with parallel events organized by the Limassol Dance House under the title “Dance Throughout the Year”.

In collaboration with the Limassol Dance House

Media Sponsors: Phileleftheros, RIK

Supported by: Limassol Municipality, Kanali 6, Efimerida Lemesos, Limassol Today, Vestnik Kipra, Lemesos Blog, Russian Radio Cyprus, Limassol Tourism Board.

Tickets: €8 (€15 for all 3 days)Free admission for choreographers & dancers (seat reservation required)Info & Tickets: 77 77 77 45  www.rialto.com.cy

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