Cooperativa Maura Morales - Germany

The contemporary dance company Cooperativa Maura Morales, led by the dancer and choreographer Maura Morales and the guitarist, composer and sound artist Michio, will represent Germany at the 19th Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival. They will presents the performance Sisyphos has been a woman, which deals the androcentric society and the role of women, which resembles the mythical Sisyphus, posing key questions.

The Cooperativa Maura Morales takes on other artists to suit the type and scope of each project. The ensemble, which came into existence in 2010, has since staged a large number of pieces which are regularly performed at prestigious international festivals throughout Europe, Asia and South America. Cooperativa Maura Morales has received a number of awards such as the prestigious Kurt Jooss Prize in 2013, the “Cultural Prize of the City of Dusseldorf” in 2014, the jury prize for best dance performance at the international dance show in Huesca 2013 such as the DURI- award 2015 at the international dance festival ACT in Bilbao/Spain. Since 2012, the Cooperativa Maura Morales gets project sponsorship from the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), from the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia and from the Department for Culture of the city of Düsseldorf.

Director/choreographer: Maura Morales
Choreographic Assistance: Giada Scuderi
Composition/Live Music: Michio
Dancers: Elia Lopez, Giada Scuderi, Maura Morales
Costume: Tina Miyake
Stage: Tina Miyake / Maura Morales
Light Design: Niko Moddenborg
Video: Manfred Borsch

The infinity of our androcentric society knows no mercy. It is an eternal failure in the aimlessness of purposes. Just absurd. But also funny, no, tragic. The repetition is essential. As farce, as emptied luck, as a fate loop, it has always been like this! - total expenditure. Just like Sisyphus, we, the women, drag the stone to the top of the mountain before it rolls back again into the abyss. Are we women failed, and if so, why? Because of our role? Because of ourselves?

Sisyphos has been a woman is sponsored by the Ministry of Family, Youth, Culture and Sport of North Rhine-Westphalia, NRW Country Office Free Culture, from the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia. A production of Cooperativa Maura Morales, co-produced with the Cultural Office of the city of Krefeld, Forum Free Theater FFT/ Düsseldorf, Ringlokshuppen/ Ruhr, Pumpenhaus Münster.

Organised by: Ministry of Education and Culture and Rialto Theatre 
In Collaboration with: Embassies and Cultural Centers of the participate countries

Supported by: Limassol Municipality, Nicosia Municipality, Event Pro
Media Sponsors: O Fileleftheros, The Cyprus Weekly, RIK

Tickets: €5
Free admission for pupils, students, soldiers, pensioners & dance professionals

Information: Goethe Institut 22674608

Free Transportation from Nicosia to Limassol, Information: 99 61 82 25
Departure from the Cyprus Handicraft Centre (Athalassas Av.) @ 19:15  

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