Spirit /bytheway productions/FlashArt2022

SPIRIT in film, SPIRIT in object, SPIRIT in book

A video dance documentary, an interactive on stage exhibition and a small book that open the creation process behind the durational performance SPIRIT, a four-hour dance marathon streamed live to the viewers’ personal screens during the first lockdown in 2020.

Rialto Theatre
17.5.22 | 18:30 & 20:30
Double screening of SPIRIT in film (63’)

*On-stage exhibition open before, in between and after the screenings.
**The film has english subtitles and there are seats available with audio description for people with reduced or lack of vision.

Within the framework of Flashart@Rialto and Beyond DisDance Festival organised by Ipogeia Skini/Synergeio.

The exhibition, designed by Eva Korae and Omiros Panayides will offer insight into the process behind the creation of the visual communication of the work, the rehearsals process, the SPIRIT typeface. Within the frame of the exhibition, the SPIRIT book designed by Omiros Panayides, will be presented. It features texts by the team and reports on the work from 2020 including ‘backstage’ photographs. Exhibits emphasising the use of touch and the third dimension were also created, prompted by the collaboration with Beyond Disdance Festival.

Credits:
Concept / Direction / Montage: Eleana Alexandrou
SPIRIT typeface / Graphic and book design: Omiros Panayides
Exhibition design and making: Eva Korae, Omiros Panayides
Original music: Panos Bartzis
Dramaturgy: Elena Agathokleous
Visual direction / Support system: Eva Korae
Performance: Arianna Marcoulides, Petros Konnaris, Rania Glymitsa, Marina Argyridou
Subtitles / Montage Assistance: Suzana Fiala
Light design for the performance: Aleksandar Jotovic
Production: bytheway productions
Supporters: Makers Will Make, Cyprus University of Technology - Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts, VSMS Lab - Visual Sociology and Museum Studies Lab
Thank you to CYENS Thinker Maker Space

Thoughts on SPIRIT by Eleana Alexandrou:
“Often, I have questions about the very function of the art of dance in relation to the place and community I live in. I seek communication pathways between the spectator and a contemporary performance work whose main component is the experience of the body. I negotiate the availability of the performer towards the viewer, the abundance of time, the engagement with a movement and its extensions, the now that becomes more important than the tomorrow, the effort to conquer the self - as a spectator or a mover.”

SPIRIT (2020) was created within the framework of the TERPSICHORI of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth of Cyprus.

Tickets from the Rialto Theatre: www.rialto.com.cy or 77777745.
www.bythewayproductions.com