ODE - Έλενα Αντωνίου (16+)
27th Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival
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ODE is about togetherness, about no woman being alone. About the ways we can find in order to expand the space that is ours as women. A bodily poem that explores the core of female strength through gaze and movement.
ODE is an act of embodied poetry—dynamic, melodic, distilled. After LANDSCAPE, which for the third year continues to travel to festivals across Europe with the support of the Onassis Stegi Touring Program, Elena Antoniou’s new work follows that path that shifts the gaze, space, time, and the relationship with the spectator.
In ODE, the two artists redefine each institutional venue that presents it as a field of attunement, and stand where rupture and renewal meet. The gaze determines, seeing with an eroticism that claims the right to draw close, to unite. Vulnerability becomes a passage toward another kind of power. Hierarchies and roles recede. Presence asserts itself and becomes sound, movement becomes vibration, and coexistence becomes a form of claiming. As Audre Lorde says, “Your silence will not protect you.”
After the presentation of her work LANDSCAPE at Dance Umbrella 2025, a performance that “isn't a game of gazes, nor an invitation to gaze or desire: it's a protest” (Vito De Biasi, “Harper’s Bazaar Italy”), and having received reviews for her work as a whole, Elena Antoniou returns with ODE, this time to seek the tender core of female power. As Eoin Fenton [“A young(ish) perspective”] notes in his review, “If anyone is to carry on that fine tradition of ‘dance from the vagina,’ as Martha Graham put it, it just might be Elena Antoniou.
Concept, Choreography, Performance: Elena Antoniou
Performance: Anna Papathanasiou
Music: Maria Spivak
Dramaturgy: Odysseas I. Konstantinou
Art direction: Christos Kyriakides
Lighting design: Vasilis Petinaris
Styling coordination: Philippe G. Missas
Photography & Graphics: Saint
Production Coordination (Internationally): Alex Papasimakopoulou
Production Coordination (Cyprus): Loukia Vassiliou
With the support of the NEON Organisation for Culture and Development & ONASSIS STEGI Touring Programme.
The premiere of the work took place in Cyprus, as part of the "Terpsichore 2025" programme of the Department of Contemporary Culture, Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Culture.
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Duration: 45'
**In the framework of the Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival 2026, the performance ODE by Elena Antoniou, will be presented at the Nicosia Municipal Theatre on 15th of June at 20:30.
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Free entrance to students, soldiers, pensioners, holders of the Disability Card and dance professionals.
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