KEEP IN A COOL AND DRY PLACE RUNNING DOWN INSIDE

To preserve the memoir from the wounds of time’s passage

To remain in constant motion, within the geology of time

photo by Maria Romina

TIME IS A SPACE

‘Ι αm nothing but a body. A body that travels in history through time’   F. Nietzsche

DANCE – TEXT : DAFNI STEFANOU

July 17 Saturday & 18 Sunday at 20:00, € 7

 KEEP IN A COOL AND DRY PLACE RUNNING DOWN INSIDE is a dance-theater play in progress.

Its inner structure is constantly changing and transforming and the dance is instantly composed moment by moment.

The spoken texts are from personal records.

This performance is part of the upcoming project under the title: MINOTAUR MONOLOGUES.

Dafni Stefanou is a graduate of the Rallou Manou Professional School of Dance (1998) and of the State School of Dance (1999). In 2000 she received a scholarship from PARTS and the Flemish Brussels’ government, for the pilot postgraduate program ‘Χ-group project’ (Brussels 2000). She now lives in Athens and works in Athens, Brussels, Maastricht and Corfu. She has studied with Julyen Hamilton, Lily Kiara, David Zambrano, Kurt Koegel and Jeremy Nelson. She has been inspired by their work and their artistic beliefs and considers the work with them influential on her artistic and pedagogic choices.

She has worked as a dancer, performance artist and assistant choreographer in Greece and abroad with several dance, music and visual artists, among others: Angeliki Stelatou, Angeliki Papadatou, Dimitris Papaioannou, Dimitra Lazaridou-Hadzigoga, Esther Klinkers, Elias Tsagkaris, Katerina Papageorgiou, Kosmas Kosmopoulos, Kris Verdonck, Konstandinos Mihos, Lily Kiara, Pak Yan Lau, Sato Endo and Tzeni Argyriou.

Since 1999 she has been making independent dance work for the stage and for the screen.

One part of her work is making instant composition pieces with music and dance, as she is interested in the dialogue between sound and movement, and how these two art forms coexist equally and share a space.

Together with the pianist Μarjolaine Charbin and the dancer Theodosia Stathi she has created the ongoing project: FALLING INTO SILENCE SOUND PROJECT in Brussels (July 2008). The project consists of a series of music - dance performances instantly composed and laboratories open to dancers, actors and musicians. These have taken place so far in Brussels, Maastricht and Athens. During the last three years Dafni Stefanou has worked with the dancer Vasiliki Tsagkari, creating pieces for the independent artistic project INSIDE OUT LAB. Since 2008 she has worked closely with the dancer and poet Julyen Hamilton.

Her recent solo work - in progress – ‘KEEP IN A COOL AND DRY PLACE RUNNING DOWN INSIDE’ was first presented at the opening of the festival AT YOUR OWN RISK at ARM RONDEEL Maastricht in May 2010. The new INSIDE OUT LAB duet with Dafni Stefanou and Vasiliki Tsagkari: ‘WHERE I WAS YOU’VE BEEN, HERE YOU ARE I’M COMING’ was premiered at IN PROGRES festival at Kinitiras studio in Athens, June 2010 and the latest work of FALLING INTO SILENCE SOUND PROJECT: ‘FOUR CURRENTS AND A THREAD’ with Julyen Hamilton & Dafni Stefanou (dance), Marjolaine Charbin (piano) & Guido de Flaviis (reeds), was premiered at ISADORA & RAYMOND DUNCAN CENTER OF DANCE AND CHOREOGRAPHIC RESEARCH  in Athens, July 2010.

Dafni Stefanou’s teaching work is always connected with her artistic creation in technique, compositional research and analysis.

Her recent research focuses on movement phrasing in improvisation and composition, in analogy and in parallel terms with musical phrasing and the phrasing of spoken and written language in literature and theater.