Is This My City? Nicosia, part #1 & #2

Is_this_my_city_Christos_Polymenakos small Site(s) Specific Performance Writing Installation in Virtual and Physical Space

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What is the language that makes questions most accessible to inhabitants, workers and passers by? How might a question placed in an abandoned due to the financial crisis high-street store and the printed and online version of the hip free press, may raise questions of belonging and claiming of a collectively desirable inhabiting of a place?

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Magic Carpet Designing

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Performance Writing Binaural Word Choreography

 

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How do you make works “move in space and time”? Which region, organ, emotional event, sexual orientation or place in the room do words originate from?  How may digital processes of various levels of fidelity, challenge the original event as subject to the physiological functions of perception of living and non-living entities? How is that offered as an all-audiences accessible experience?

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Greek Language for Young Students I Online Course I “M.”

Greek Language Online Course for Young Students. Start yours anytime, from any part of the world.

Alphabet Image for Greek Language Online Courses test imageM. is a young Greek-Cypriot girl with loads of imagination and a flair for languages. Having attended solely English speaking schools around the world, currently residing in Saudi Arabia, her parents were looking for an online Greek language course that M. would enjoy.

 

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Unsuspected Time

Anypoptos_Hronos_Kinitiras_PolymenakosPublic Space Dance Performance  

   

“In time unsuspected, enters the unexpected” A public space dance performance by Kinitiras based on my poem, “In Time Unsuspected”. It traveled in different squares in Athens, before it appeared at the central square of Kalamata in the frame of the Kalamata International Dance Festival.

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«…under the lotus flower.»

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...under the lotus flower -video still - CP«…under the lotus flower. I want to forget everything…» So much of what’s going on, terrifies us. So, what do we do? A thriller taking place under the lotus flower.

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“Performance Writing as practiced in Dartington College of Arts and the body/word method: interdisciplinary approaches to writing as tools for research, creation and education. A starting point.»

CPOLYMENAKOS KEY NOTE PRESENTATION PATRAS test ImageKeynote Presentation on body/word and Performance Writing – March 2018

body/word CPOLYMENAKOSSo, what is this multimodal approach to writing, called body/word and how has it been useful in research, creation and education since 2009? An overview of it’s history and relation to DCA’s Performance Writing.

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PERFORMANCE WRITING -2nd Congress Performing Arts in Education, University of Patras, Archaelogical Museum of Patras, Funded by the University of Patras, Research Committee.

Performance_Writing_body_word_Polymenakos_Patras PW Patras test imageA panel dedicated to Performance Writing as practiced in Dartington College of Arts – March 2018

A unique combination of Performance Writing Academics and Practitioners share their take on Performance Writing and it’s applications in contemporary education. In the frame of 2nd Congress Performing Arts in Education, University of Patras, Archaelogical Museum of Patras, Funded by the University of Patras, Research Committee, for the 1st time in Greece.

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Do you Speak Dance? Masterclass on Verbal Communication of Choreographic Research and Creation

Christos-Polymenakos-Education-SliderA  Christos Polymenakos Masterclass employing his body/word method 

Can one translate movement into word? How can I communicate my choreographic research or creation to the audience, my collaborators, my sponsors? How can I use words towards the development of my creative identity in choreography? How does dance “open up” to people from different fields and backgrounds? Continue reading “Do you Speak Dance? Masterclass on Verbal Communication of Choreographic Research and Creation”

Feedback Lessons I Meet the Artist

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The process of feedback is ideally a gentle – if sometimes passionate- exchange of gifts. It needs to be focused, yet open, acknowledging subjectivity in order to be constructive for all parties involved. When it works like that, it is a core component of qualitative and quantitative audience development and very liberating for the artists and curators/programmers.  It then becomes Feed Forward.

 

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Horizons, Reflections And More Lies * ~

Horizons_Reflections_And_More_Lies_CPolymenakosSite(s) Specific Performance Writing Installation in Virtual and Physical Space

What constitutes a horizon? Why do some promises have decisive importance, even when we know from the outset that they will (probably) go down in history as unfulfilled? Do limitations divide or unite, do they hinder or do they incite meetings? Randomness, study, passion, art and responsibility, dreams and sea.

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