ABOUT
A performance by Elena Antoniou in collaboration with Maria Spivak.
Choreographer-performer Elena Antoniou and musician Maria Spivak meet on stage for the first time in ODE. Following LANDSCAPE—which continues, for a third consecutive year, to travel across European festivals with the support of Onassis Stegi—the new chorographic work traces a path that shifts the gaze, the space, the time, and the relationship with the spectator.
In ODE, the two artists redefine each institutional venue as a field of attunement, standing at the threshold where rupture meets rebirth. The gaze becomes a force — it does not divide, but sees with an eroticism that longs to draw near, to unite. Vulnerability becomes a passage to another kind of strength. Hierarchies and roles recede. Presence asserts itself: becomes sound, movement turns to vibration, and coexistence becomes an act of re-claiming space.
ODE is a powerful, melodic, dense state — an act of embodied poetry. A gesture of transition: from dominance to a language of elevation. As Audre Lorde reminds us: “Your silence will not protect you."
CREDITS
Concept/ Choreography/ Performance: ELENA ANTONIOU // Music/ Performance: MARIA SPIVAK // Dramaturgy: ODYSSEAS I. KONSTANTINOU // Art Direction: CHRISTOS KYRIAKIDES // Lighting Design: VASILIS PETINARIS // Photography & Graphics: SAINT // Production Coordination: LOUKIA VASSILIOU
The performance is produced within the frame of the "Terpsichore" programme of the Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Culture.
PERFORMANCES
Rialto Theater 2025
27 September 20:30
28 September 18:30 & 20:30
Limassol,Cyprus