Venetsiana Kalampaliki

PHRASES

Phrases investigates the subtle space between the things that we see and those we don’t. Reconsidering tools of accessibility, Venetsiana Kalampaliki uses text and movement as her basic tools to build a narration that travels from the very inside of the body to the extended environment that we share. By applying the simple acts of sitting, standing, stepping and jumping, the stage is transformed into a moving text, proposing multiple ways of perceiving what is seen and what is heard, what is done and what is said. With a wide range of descriptive elements, from anatomical mechanisms of movement to dictionary definitions the performance navigates the audience to factual yet fictional landscapes.

^{concept, text, performance: Venetsiana Kalampaliki | composition: Andys Skordis | singing voice: Kristia Michael | text editing: Sofronis Sofroniou | german translation: Sean Keller | scenography: Anthoula Bourna | text choreography: Venetsiana Kalampaliki, Xenia Koghilaki | artistic collaboration, outside eye: Xenia  Koghilaki, Dimitris Mytilinaios | assistance: Friederike Hansen | teaser: Marina Skoutela | thanks to: Quiplash / Amelia Lander-Cavallo, Filippos Vasileiou}

^{The audio description in english is part of the performance and is done by the choreographer and performer Venetsiana Kalampaliki.}

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Venetsiana Kalampaliki

is a dancer and choreographer based in Athens. She is a graduate of the School of Economics and Political Sciences of the University of Athens and the Greek National School of Dance and continues her research with a Master in Fine Arts at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her collaborations extend in the fields of contemporary dance, digital and visual arts, performance and disability arts alongside the development of her personal artistic practice. Her latest project Re-call was presented at the 7th New Choreographers Festival of the Onassis Stegi, the Holland Dance Festival and is currently on tour.

During her K3 residency, Venetsiana aims to develop methodologies that consider accessibility from the beginning of an artistic process and make use of the specific aesthetic qualities. Observing links between accessibility, the city and the cultural scene in terms of participation, she will focus on the urban area in order to become familiar with the variety of needs and desires of mixed audience members.