Relationscapes

‘PleAse be assUred that

as sOon as We are
in suCH

positiON
I shall.

be
in touCH with

you '

(John Cage, Notations)

Inspired by a poem composed instantly from social media sources in the period of quarantine in Athens, ‘Relationscapes, an exercise on waiting’ is a video dance performance where the values of instant composition are transformed into dramaturgical parameters and the state of waiting becomes a practice of listening and a condition for the coincidence to happen.

The performer creates a context into which she makes decisions for the set of the space on the shooting time of the performance. Influenced by the New York Movement, the composition of scores constitutes the map of the choreography.

Approaching the dancing body as an archive, and the score-based structure of the choreography as a dynamic form which can generate ‘infinite worlds’, the performer is in a constant negotiation between following the structure (the order of the scores) and messing up the structure. Stimulus from the surrounding environment, the air, the space, the sound, the ground, the dancing body, the compositional mind and objects are there; to affect and be affected, blending into each other.