SAT 12 APR / 21h30
Antigo Armazém do Carnaval, Loulé
Performance / M12 / 45'
National Premiere / Free Admittance
Down to Under investigates the city’s influence on the human body, exploring the urbanscape as an ever-changing algorithm, at once a playground, a battleground, a living space, as well as a confinement. Inspired on video gaming, the internet and Gen Z culture, the performing bodies enact physicalities and gestures appearing in urban underground music-based subcultures, such as hip-hop / rap, emo, noise, hardcore and punk, exploring forms of social disobedience through movement and sound. These performing bodies, charged by the effects of social injustice and struggle, proactively and playfully appropriate the space and expose their confusion, frustration and rage while allowing their physical effort to transform into vulnerability, tenderness and intimacy.
Concept, choreography, artistic direction: Despina Sanida Crezia
Performance: Eleni Roberts Kazouri, Despina Sanida Crezia
Music: Panos Alexiadis
Dramaturgy: Elena Novakovits
Light design: Panagiotis Tomaras
Installation (in Athens): Stavros Kapetanios, Hristos Hantzis
Costumes: Despina Sanida Crezia
Coproduction: MIR Festival
Despina Sanida Crezia (1998) is a performer, dancer and choreographer based in Athens. She is an alumnus of the State School of Dance (Athens) and of the History and Archaeology Department of the NKUA. As a performer she has collaborated with visual and dance artists such as Cyril Baldy, Ioannis Mandafounis, Moriah Evans, Christos Papadopoulos, Nikos Navridis and others. She has also performed for audiovisual installations, cinema, video art and music videos.
Her artistic practice focuses on effort and labor, on internet and youth culture, on sound and radio, on the urban landscape, choreopolitics of social disobedience and solidarity in it.
She has been a resident artist in Duncan Dance Research Center (Athens, 2021), in P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels, 2023) and in Neue Musik Zentrale (Essen, 2024). Her online radio show, slug shake, is hosted bimonthly online on Stegi Radio. She is part of the VIGIL artistic duo through which they have collaborated with PCAI (2022) and Flux Laboratory (2022-23), whilst from 2024 they are Onassis AiR Fellows.
