Dimitris PapaioannouTransverse Orientation
09.10.
Boris Hristov House of Culture, Plovdiv
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Start:
19:30
Duration:
105 min
Age:
16+
10.10.
Boris Hristov House of Culture, Plovdiv
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Start:
19:30
Duration:
105 min
Age:
16+
11.10.
Boris Hristov House of Culture, Plovdiv
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19:30
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105 min
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12.10.
Boris Hristov House of Culture, Plovdiv
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19:30
Duration:
105 min
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Credits
Transverse Orientation (2021)
Conceived – Visualized + Directed by Dimitris Papaioannou
With Damiano Ottavio Bigi, Šuka Horn, Jan Möllmer, Breanna O’Mara, Tina Papanikolaou, Łukasz Przytarski, Christos Strinopoulos, Michalis Theophanous
Music : Antonio Vivaldi
Set Design : Tina Tzoka & Loukas Bakas
Sound Composition + Design : Coti K.
Costume Design : Aggelos Mendis
Collaborative Lighting Designer : Stephanos Droussiotis
Music Supervisor : Stephanos Droussiotis
Sculptures + Special Constructions – Props : Nectarios Dionysatos
Mechanical Inventions : Dimitris Korres
Creative – Executive Producer + Assistant Director : Tina Papanikolaou
Assistant Directors + Rehearsal Directors : Pavlina Andriopoulou & Drossos Skotis
Assistant to the Set Designers : Tzela Christopoulou
Assistant to the Sound Composer : Martha Kapazoglou
Assistant to the Costume Designer : Aella Tsilikopoulou
Special Constructions – Props Assistant : Eva Tsambasi
Photography + Cinematography : Julian Mommert
Technical Director : Manolis Vitsaxakis
Assistant to the Technical Director Marios Karaolis
Stage Manager – Sound Engineer + Props Constructions : David Blouin
Props Master : Tzela Christopoulou
Lighting Programmer : Stephanos Droussiotis
Costumes Construction : Litsa Moumouri, Efi Karantasiou, Islam Kazi
Stage Technicians : Kostas Kakoulidis, Evgenios Anastopoulos, Panos Koutsoumanis
Lighting Constructions : Miltos Athanasiou
Silicone Baby made by : Joanna Bobrzynska-Gomes
Props Team : Natalia Fragkathoula, Marilena Kalaitzantonaki, Timothy Laskaratos, Anastasis Meletis, Antonis Vassilakis
Executive Production : 2WORKS in collaboration with POLYPLANITY Productions
Executive Production Associate : Vicky Strataki
Executive Production Assistant : Kali Kavvatha
Props Production Manager : Pavlina Andriopoulou
International Relations + Communications Manager : Julian Mommert
A production of : ONASSIS STEGI
To be first performed at ONASSIS STEGI (2021)
Co-Produced by : Festival d’Avignon, Biennale de la danse de Lyon 2021, Dance Umbrella / Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Fondazione Campania dei Festival – Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, Grec Festival de Barcelona, Holland Festival – Amsterdam, Luminato (Toronto) / TO Live, New Vision Arts Festival (Hong Kong), Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Saitama Arts Theatre / ROHM Theatre Kyoto, Stanford Live / Stanford University, Teatro Municipal do Porto, Théâtre de la Ville – Paris / Théatre du Châtelet, UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance
With the support of : Festival Aperto (Reggio Emilia), Festival de Otoño de la Comunidad de Madrid, HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts, National Arts Centre (Ottawa), New Baltic Dance Festival, ONE DANCE WEEK Festival, P.P. Culture Enterprises Ltd, TANEC PRAHA International Dance Festival, Teatro della Pergola – Firenze, Torinodanza Festival / Teatro Stabile di Torino – Teatro Nazionale
Funded by the : Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports
Dimitris Papaioannou’s work is supported by MEGARON – THE ATHENS CONCERT HALL
Transverse orientation is the method by which insects keep a fixed angle on a distant source of light for orientation—this is why they fly towards all that shines.
“My works evolve during rehearsal, they are not composed beforehand. I prepare material only in order to kickstart the process and, most of the time, I throw it out. I’ve resolved to not know what the outcome will be ahead of time, to trust in the process. In the end, if I am lucky, the work reveals itself, and I try to understand it, to perfect it. I reserve the right to change it all at the last moment. That’s why it is difficult for me to talk to you about something before it has actually come to completion. What’s the use of plans and pretensions? Art is praxis. If I talk about it, I will only either mislead you or betray the work.”
— Dimitris Papaioannou