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di MARIANNA KAVALLIERATOS
presentato da The Watermill Center/Laboratory for performance
diretto da ROBERT WILSON
_"I am nobody--who are you? _
_Are you nobody too?" _
Emily Dickinson
With They we explore the concept of transgender and the sexual identity of human nature. Observing the world of two creatures entering their universe of coexistence, transformation and endless role-play.
Two creatures travel through their private microcosms and imaginary universes.
They sometimes coexist and sometimes quarrel with each other; _they_ meet and disappear, now exploring, now ignoring each other.
They are constantly transforming and teetering on the brink between passion and hatred, changing and questioning each time in the fluidity of sexual desire and their undefined identity.
Defining someone's identity, in the contemporary world, has become the model for liberation. In contrast, our sexual preference does not necessarily imply our gender identity. Our biological gender is not closely related to our social gender.
conception - choreography **Marianna Kavallieratos **.
co-choreographers and performers **Alexandros Vardaxogloy, Alexis Fousekis **
lighting design **Eleftheria Deko **
music **Dom Bouffard **
costumes **Vasiliki Syrma **
assistant choreographer **Aspasia-Maria Alexiou **.
photo **Efi Gousi **
production assistant **Maria Vasariotou **
art direction **Klokworks**
production & tour organization** Delta Pi **
the project was developed as part of The Watermill Summer Program directed from Robert Wilson with financial support from the Greek Ministry of Culture (YPPOA)
She studied contemporary dance and choreography at The Place London Contemporary dance school. He continued his studies to S.N.N.Y. to New York as an exchange student for one year. She then studied Graham technique in the Graham Studios in New York. Since 1992, she has been a close associate of Robert Wilson at the Watermill Center of the Arts and Humanities to Watermill, NY. She has performed as a dancer in the following productions by Robert Wilson: T.S. Eliot - Une Femme douce - Persephone - The Days Before DDD III - Wings on Rock - Prometheus-Alcestis (l´opera) - Relative light, Odyssey, Sonnets. He has presented the following choreographic works: _ΤΗΕΥ, Stations, Recalculate, Auto Run, Moment, Normal Operation, I´m this .... I´m that _at the Athens Festival, Onassis Cultural Center, Watermill Centro and Berlin.
The piece SKIN, a long-form performance, was chosen from NEON / MAI for the ´AS ONE´ occasion in the Benaki Museum in 2016. A site-specific dance performance ´STREAM´, as part of the removal project, was presented at the Arsaki Arcade in Athens. She has taught dance composition at the National School of Dance in Ahens, taught a movement workshop at the Watermill Center NY at the Veaki acting school in Embros, as well as to outdoor dance classes at the DANCE cultural center and many dance studios in Athens.
He is a graduate of the Theatre School "Modern Times", the National Institute of Dance in Greece and a graduate in acting from RADA (Ma Lab Course in 2015-2016). He has been working as a dancer and actor since 2012 and collaborates with several dance companies and choreographers in Greece and abroad such as Andonis Foniadakis, Marianna Kavallieratos, Johannes Wieland, Christos Papadopoulos, Anastasia Mprouzioti and others. He worked as an actor in the films_ Venus in the Garden_ by Telemachos Alexiou, Interruption and _Third Kind _by Yorgos Zois and I Will Cross Tomorrow by Sebideh Farsi. to theater he worked with Nikita Milivojevic for the Athens Festival in the play _Lucrezia Borgia _by Victor Hugo, with Nikos Karathanos and with Konstantinos Rigos for the National Theatre of Greece.
He was born and raised in Athens. He studied History at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and contemporary dance at the State School of Dance in Athens, where he graduated on a scholarship to the Martha Graham School in New York. He collaborated with Dionisis Savopoulos and Ermis Malkotsis in Plutus and with Konstantinos Rigos in Arcadia for the Athens and Epidaurus Festivals. With Giannis Kakleas in Aharnes, Jeu De Massacre (for National Greek Theatre) and_ Cyrano de Bergerac,_ with Thomas Moshopoulos in Mojo and Euripides Laskaridis in Ridicule and Transformation-The Walk. With Stella Fotiadi in Hands / Χέρια and Seeking Bliss, with Rootlessroot in Europium, Marianna Kavallieratos in Stream, Death and They and with Giannis Antoniou in Memoirs of a Sailor for Kuwait's National Opera .