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Who knows where the time goes – potential destination #1 is a dance performance | choreographic installation that attempts to enter the paradoxical and ambiguous universe created when Time is intertwined with Image. The time in flow, the freezing time and the living present. How time can be traced in our bodies moving in a constantly changing world?

For the philosopher Roland Barthes, the "Image" encapsulates what he calls the Third Meaning. According to Barthes, an image encapsulates a dark, blurry area that cannot be articulated verbally, escapes the descriptive possibilities of language, becomes inexhaustible and infinite with multiple meanings and references. How can dance through body and movement approach this unmapped zone? Ηow can dance be inscribed in body as a succession of images? Does the viewer’s eye share any analogy to the lens of a camera while watching a dance unfolding as a scenic event?

To capture and illustrate this Image and Time relation, the performance is based on the construction of an Ephemeral, Live, Variable Scenography that includes the use of everyday material as scenographic objects. The performers experiment continuously with different designs, layers and spatiotemporal arrangements while the audience is invited to reflect on the ephemeral, the vivid memory, the image as an imprint of time.

With the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of Greece for 2020-2021. The choreographic research started in the framework of a residency at SE.S.TA Centre for Choreographing Development/Interdisciplinary Incubator (March 2019, Žďár nad Sázavou, Prague). Movement experiments with tapes as scenographic object

// CAST & CREDITS //

Concept-choreography-artistic direction: Eleonora Siarava
Ephemeral scenography: Eleonora Siarava
Performers: Mina Ananiadou, Natalia Baka, Nikoleta Karmiri
Music: Savvas Metaxas
Set & Costumes: Daphne Aidoni
Assistant Set & Costumes: Sofia Theodoraki
Light Design: Miltos Athanasiou
Production assistant: Danai Giannakopoulou
Photos-video: Alekos & Christos Bourelias
Production: Per_Dance Choreographic Research Platform 

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