[Action] V - Tous Les Deux

'Action (Praxi) is unpredictable and irreversible. Against these two frailties, humans have found two solutions: promising and forgiveness.' Hannah Arendt

Two figures  interact in a poetic duet around the issues of their coexistence. The work explores as its theme the number 2 and all it entails: difference, co-operation, strife, recognition, negotiation.

…The dream, then, is to get beyond not only the number one – the number that determines unity, of body or of self – but also beyond the number two, which determines difference, antagonism, and exchange conceived of as merely the coming together of opposites. That this dream is perhaps impossible is suggested. Its power remains, however, because the desire it embodies is a desire for both endless complication and creative movement.[1]             

Credits

Choreographed by: Maria Koliopoulou 

Music/Sound designer: Yannis Isidorou 

Light designer: Thomas Ekonomacos 

Costume designer: Adonis Volanakis 

Set designer: Konstantsia Sarafianou 

Production director: Dimitra Kritikidi 

Performed by: Maria Koliopoulou, Nikoleta Karmiri, Eugenia Sigalou         

Photos Vojta Brtnický                               

The duet is commissioned by the New Europe Festival 2009. 

[action] V - Tous Les Deux has been presented at the Abundance Festival (KarlstadJune 2010), the Athens Concert Hall during the 4th Contemporary Greek Dance Platform (June 2010), the New Europe Festival (PragueDecember 2009), the Philippi Festival (Kavala - August 2009), the Benaki Museum BenakiMuseum(AthensApril 2010) and the 1st Contemporary Dance Festival (Serres - March 2009).