"How Do You Like Your Pink?" delves into the complex experiences of women in today's society, focusing on how conditioning shapes their behaviors, beliefs, and perceptions through repeated experiences and influences, often starting from a young age.
Conditioning refers to the process of learning specific behaviors, beliefs, and reactions through repeated exposure and reinforcement. From an early age, girls are often conditioned to adhere to certain gender roles through toys, media, and societal expectations. This conditioning extends to various aspects of life, such as gender roles, body image, behavioral expectations, career choices, media representation, authority influence, violence and harassment.
The four female performers, who are in different decades and phases of their lives, compose the work through together, drawing inspiration from classical fairytales, social stereotypes and phenomena, personal and collective archives, memories, the scourge of gender-based violence but also through contemporary literature and popular Greek songs.
Approaching dance as a holistic art form, they explore and experiment in a fluid conceptual framework, drawing and creating material from different art fields such as movement, writing and sound, which in combination with the scenography and costume choices constitute a utopian and at the same time bittersweet "world", highlighting the complexity of the female experience in modern society.
Credits:
Idea, Creation, Sound Editing, Costumes, Set Design: Anthi Kettirou
Performance, Co-creation, Texts: Anthi Kettirou, Andromachi Dimitriadou Lindahl, Georgia Constantinou Clark, Elisavet Panagiotou
Lighting Design: Christos Charalambous
Lighting Assistance: Lyda Karayianni
Photography: Pavlos Vrionides
Sponsor: Paraikas&Co
Production: Art|Haus
Approaching dance as a holistic art form and in a quest to expand her practice as well as to develop her own personal language, she explores and experiments in a fluid yet hybrid conceptual framework, drawing and creating material from different art fields such as movement, writing, video, photography, sound and costume design/creation.
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Approaching dance as a holistic art form and in a quest to expand her practice as well as to develop her own personal language, she explores and experiments in a fluid yet hybrid conceptual framework, drawing and creating material from different art fields such as movement, writing, video, photography, sound and costume design/creation.
Her most recent works
address the matter of
female existence in regards
of body and identity and its
status in today’s society,
through personal and collective records and memories, but also
through the scourge of gender based violence.
Choreographer, performer and artistic director of Asomates Dynameis Dance Company. Her dance works, expressive and lyrical, focus on the human experience, body memory, identity, loss, dystopia, violence. Gender and social issues, personal narrations and stories often become the starting point for reflection and the canvas where dance, text, music and images constitute her poetic universe.
A contemporary dance artist whose work emerges from the exploration of trauma and how it is connected to the body and mind. Through her own personal archive and experimental movement, she researches the experience of trauma at individual and collective level.
Elisavet is a performer with a background in contemporary dance and breakdance and a strong interest in improvisation practises. She has trained at Oficina Zero Program, directed by Mafalda Deville and has completed the OpenUp Performance Lab, curated by Lia Haraki. She collaborates with local choreographers as a dancer/performer while sh
Elisavet is a performer with a background in contemporary dance and breakdance and a strong interest in improvisation practises. She has trained at Oficina Zero Program, directed by Mafalda Deville and has completed the OpenUp Performance Lab, curated by Lia Haraki. She collaborates with local choreographers as a dancer/performer while she is also devoted to the development of her personal creative practises.
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Special thanks and gratidute to Dr.Savvas Savvides and Cristiana Savvides for their endless support not only to this project but to my own personal journey as an artist.
To my wonderful husband Linos Paraikas for always being by my side.
To artist Theodore Tsiamai for his precious help and feedback.
To Two Eleven Dance Studio, Georgia Constantinou Clark and Erica Photiou for your hospitality and Yogi 8, Elina Nicolaou for all your help.
Last but not least, to Evaggelia Onoufriou and Nicolas Demetriou for making us feel like home.