TRIPLE BILL: PANOS MALACTOS X DIAMANTO HADJIZACHARIA
Where: NICOSIA MUNICIPAL THEATRE
When: 02/06/2023
Tickets: ZONE A: €18 / €16 (reduced) | ZONE B: €16 / €14 (reduced) | ZONE C: €14 / €12 (reduced) | ZONE D: €12 / €10 (reduced) | Reduced tickets are valid for: Students, Soldiers, Pensioners, Large Families, Actors, Disabled with presentation of relevant ID
Duration: 75’
Language: English
About the event:
Nicosia International Festival completes its #acceptance series, organized on the occasion of Cyprus Pride 2023, with a contemporary dance triple bill with works by two Cypriot contemporary dance artists, Panos Malaktos and Diamanto Hatzizacharia. All three projects are motivated by the need for camaraderie, visibility and inclusion. Exploring our vulnerability, our vital need for human contact and coexistence, the two artists create universes in which bodies fight for equality, for love, for love, for work, for their place in society. All three of these works are motivated by the need for connection, visibility and inclusion. Exploring our vulnerability, our vital need for human contact and coexistence, the two artists create universes in which bodies fight for equality, for love, for love, for work, for their place in society.
More about the event:
“Hire me, please.” (2019)
Panos Malactos
Audition as a condition. As a physical and psychological state. As an evolutionary process. As brutality. As a relationship of authority. As a statement. As an obstacle. As a prerequisite. As a "journey". As a journey. As a verdict. As a depreciation of personality. As a retrospect. As a role-playing game. As a rejection. As an exploration of boundaries. As a total availability.
It is well known to everyone, but more to the people that work in the performing arts, that auditioning is a stressful phase in the creative process. And especially at the beginning of the career of an artist-dancer is also relatively unavoidable.
“Hire me, please” has a very basic axis: the irony and the commentary in the auditioning process - the sarcasm over their character and structure. From this perspective, the dancer-choreographer observes on the one hand his personal ignorance of the boundaries and materials he possesses, which he ultimately provides the judges and on the other the survival instinct that compels him to the full satisfaction of his potential future employers. The main contrast of Hire me, please is the absolute availability of the listener (I do my best so that I will ultimately survive) and his emotional / physical / spiritual / mental state before, during and after the audition.
Choreography/Performance: Panos Malactos
Dramaturgy: Odysseas I. Konstantinou
Costume: Eleni Papavasiliou
“Hire me, please” has been presented at:
ACT Festival // Spain // 2020
Stockholm Fringe Festival // Sweden // 2020
Gdańsk Dance Festival // Poland // 2020
Machol Shalem Festival // Israel // 2020
The Genderhouse - Queer Arts Festival, Bora Bora Dans // Denmark // 2021
27Masdanza Festival // Spain // 2022
27Masdanza Extension Tenerife Festival // Spain // 2022
“Hire me, please” received the New Choreographer Award from the Cyprus Choreography Platform 2019..
“would you still love me if I was like this” (2021)
Diamanto Hadjizacharia
The piece demonstrates the beauty of companionship and the importance of autonomy through a literal projection of interdependence. It draws inspiration from Plato’s myth of the Other Half while highlighting the experience of the bodies as one entity and their journey to separation. Would you still love me if I was like this, is a playful journey of love and tenderness in the world of a rather unusual duet.
Concept: Diamanto Hadjizacharia
Choreography: Diamanto Hadjizacharia in collaboration with Marina Sophocleous
Dramaturgy: Demetris Karamanos
Original Music Composition: Alexandra Victoros
Light Design: Aleksandar Jotovic
Photos: Pavlos Vrionides
Video: Suzana Phialas
Performance: Diamanto Hadjizacharia, Marina Sophocleous
The piece “would you still love me if I was like this” has been presented at:
Cyprus Choreography Platform // Cyprus // December 2021 (premiere)
“SADBOI (2021)”
Panos Malactos
“I had a boyfriend. Then I got dumped. I got dumped, I bought a thong and I need lots of validation.”
Panos Malactos works with Elias Adam and researches the concept of radical stage vulnerability.
“SADBOI” likes his suffering raw. He is gay, horny, heartbroken and extremely peaceful. He instagrams, therefore he exists. “SADBOI” is an autofictional portrait of a sadboi dancer. The show attempts an ambiguous and complex narration, which explores sex, love and sadness in the fully technological and sexualised post - modern age. “SADBOI” aims to create an immersive experience where intense physicality intersects with the virtual space of the internet (social media, memes, dating apps). If lovesongs are dumb, wait till you hear this one. How many fire emojis will this get? The admins of this show are searching for validation.
Choreographer/performer: Panos Malactos
Director/writer: Elias Adam
Dramaturgy: Panos Malactos/Elias Adam
Costumes: Miguel Penaranda Olmeda
Visuals: Sita Messer
Music: Lynks, Eric Prydz, Lulu Be
Tour Management: Nikos Mavrakis & Christos Christopoulos - TooFarEast
With the support of the Cyprus Choreography Platform and the Cultural Services of the Cyprus Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth
“SADBOI” has been presented at:
Cyprus Choreography Platform // Cyprus // December 2021 (premiere)
Dance House Lemesos // Cyprus // March 2022
M54 // Greece // May 2022
FIN Fringe Festival // Finland // May 2022
Reykjavik Fringe Festival // Iceland // June 2022
Istanbul Fringe Festival // Turkey // September 2022
HOMOGRAFÍA/HOMOGRAPHY Festival // Belgium // October 2022
F.O.L.A. Festival // New Zealand // February 2023
