27 Feb Nefeli Oikonomou
POLY
Choreographic Piece
About POLY
POLY is a choreography and dance piece.
POLY is a fictive figure. An assemblage of qualities, ideas and logics. A third option, neither right nor left, but both in the same body. POLY is already rearranged, a body we don’t yet know. POLY is so queer that (s)he doesn’t know feminism. POLY will mingle with the audience. POLY is not a figure but a metaphor, or many!
POLY, meaning ”many” or ”much”, might refer to someone practicing many loves
POLY, is an attempt for re-thinking mono/poly-gamy, relationality, intimacy and the spatiality of thought. We can be close at a far distance and distant at an arm’s reach.
POLY, a selfie with more than one person, but may also refer to polyphemus, a monster who imprisoned Odysseus.
With Jedi-powers we’ll locate our new inner strengths, and attempt new modes of being ”two-gether” or maybe ”poly-gether”?
Sebastian and Nefeli present a working draft of a choreographic piece. In it, they reflect over the idea of multiplicity and over the conception of Queer.
During their month at the residency they have been researching and cataloguing resources; they explored a series of movements, gestures, and materials through which they intend to dissect the polyvalence of both terms.
For this open studio, they display and put into action a collection of situations and objects – some of the elements from which they will potentially build the final piece.
