concept, coreography and artistic direction Fotini Stamatelopoulou
performance Despina Sanida Crezia
original music and sound planning Panos Alexiadis
wearable metallic objects, sculptural elements Dimitris Tampakis
lights planning Nysos Vasilopoulos
text Fotini Stamatelopoulou
dramaturgical support Elena Novakovits
production management Alex Papasimakopoulou
production Onassis Stegi
co - produced by Latitudes Contemporaines, Spring Performing Arts Festival, Mirfestival
supported by European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists (EFFEA)
research sustained by Grand Luxe Network, Choreographic Platform e Onassis Air (Atene), L’Abri (Ginevra), Trois C-L (Lussemburgo), Pôle-Sud (Strasburgo), Grand Studio (Bruxelles), Theater Freiburg

National Premiere 

NEAR MISSES is a solo performance as well as a visual installation that deals with the body as a site of struggle. It explores ‘near-to’ experiences of transformation and failure. A series of acts unfolds gradually, blending spoken words, protective symbolic objects, and intense physical states. With deliberate yet brute gestures, gargoyle-like facial expressions and self-defense physicalities, the piece reveals an incessant becoming that shifts between silence and rage.

The performer is accompanied by a set of wearable protective metallic objects that operate as both burdens and bodily extensions. It generates a sonic and vocal altar that gradually reveals an overexposed gesture of obtaining freedom and resilience in chaos.

The work echoes the challenges of physicality, commenting on an urge for a collective deliberation against fear and failure.

The presentation of the Performance was supported by Onassis Stegi Touring Program

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