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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What Do You Want To Dance?

WDYWTD_group_pic_Polymenakos_body_word_Performance_WritingThe call was an inspiration. The first meeting was even more intriguing and enjoyable. A research project curated by choreographer, Iris Karayan and dramaturg, performing arts researcher, Elena Novakovits, with workshop-exchanges facilitated by dramaturg, performing arts researcher, Rodia Vomvolou, theoretician, dramaturg, performing arts researcher, Konstantina Georgelou and the curators themselves, supported by the Ministry of Culture and Sport of Greece. Since March, working with ten more professionals of the broader dance fields, invited following a call for proposals, collaboratively exploring our own practices, unfolding the core question around the pillars of choreography, dramaturgy, writing on, of and for dance and constructive feedback. A breath of much appreciated fresh air, really. Sooo looking forward to our next gatherings and will definitely share the new body/word – Performance Writing proposals in time due. Thank you EveryBody * ~

“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”

This is not My Body

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This IS Not My Body Spiral1. ENTER SPACE, This is not My Body, 2. ENTER BODY, 3. ENTER TIME,   Thank You Every Body, 4. ENTER TEXT, 5. ENTER EXIT, this is my body

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