Dance Well | Venetsiana Kalampaliki

ANATOMY OF WORDS

I dreamed of bodies moving words, of unsettling definitions, of language permeating the fluid physicalities of becoming together.

Anatomy of Words is a choreographic exploration of everyday gestures, inviting the audience to expand their perception of the familiar. Step, push, pull, turn, hop, fall. These words form the basis of the work, which combines movement, music, and text. For this project, choreographer Venetsiana Kalampaliki is collaborating with dancers from Dance Well Klub—a dance club for people with and without Parkinson's disease. The piece deals with how we see and hear through dance and explores the poetics of audio description and the materiality of subtitles.

^{By and with: Christa Bonné, Gerda Haas, Sabine Jentsch, Elva Kienzle, Jürgen Klimmeck, Arnika Kuff, Gabriele Kurz, Heidrun Mund, Tomsie Oswald, Birgit Schiwek, Christian Schmidt-Heisch, Ulrike Steierwald, Angelika Zwinscher
Choreography, Artistic Direction: Venetsiana Kalampaliki
Music Composition: Andys Skordis
Singers: Marialena Anastasiades, Nicole Ardanitou
Set and Costume Design: Anthoula Bourna
Lighting Design: Doria Worden
Subtitle Design, Poster & Flyers: Soft Archive
Dramaturgy: Teresa Hoffmann
Rehearsal Support: Sahra Bazyar-Planke
Access consulting: Philipp Wacker, Naomi Sanfo
Production management: Sofia Chionidou
Photography: Jonas Fischer
Video: Julia Tielke
English-German translations and voice recordings: Joelle Steurer
Interpreters: Nicole Ostrycharczyk, Noa Winand
Recording and Mixing engineer: Andreas Trachonitis, recorded and mixed at eleven63 world studios}

Dance Well

Dance Well was created at K3 in 2022 as part of a unique EU-wide practical and research project focusing on dance and Parkinson's disease. With scientific support from Fondazione Fitzcarraldo and Fondazione Università Ca' Foscarin, six European dance centers introduced dance programs for people with and without Parkinson's disease, which will run until 2025. K3 established a weekly club and open monthly dance classes, which will continue. In January 2025, participants from the club had the opportunity to take part in a stage production (Yolanda Morales Rhythm of Our Lives) for the first time.

Venetsiana Kalampaliki

works in the performing arts field as a dancer and choreographer based between Hamburg and Athens. She is a graduate of the Greek National School of Dance, the University of Athens, and the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her interdisciplinary work combines text, voice, and movement, focusing on the body in sociopolitical contexts of accessibility and inclusion. Her works have been presented at festivals such as Holland Dance Festival and Onassis Stegi. She collaborates with Rimini Protokoll, Jenny Beyer, Antje Velsinger, Anna Konjetzky, Lenio Kaklea and Iris Karayan amongst others.

In 2021–22, she was a resident choreographer at K3 – centre for choreography and attended international residency programmes in Chile and South Korea. She coordinates K3’s Professional Training programme and is involved in the European project Dance Well.

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