11th Open House International Festival

The 11th edition of Open House will take place from the 2nd-4th of October 2020. Dance House Lemesos has been organizing Open House Festival since 2010. What makes Open House special and unique within the Cypru’s artistic scene is its innovative and daring identity.

This year, Open House celebrates performing arts with a series of live performances, screenings and installations from Cyprus based and international artists supporting the artistic community and the live performative experience while complying with all the safety measures keeping spectators and artists safe.

Open House gives the audience the opportunity to experience contemporary performing art making and become better acquainted with the creative practices of choreography and performing arts in general.

This year’s programme:

02/10/2020

Solo project :SKY │ 18:00 Live PerformanceMultilevel car parking space (Salaminos street).

For the purposes of Solo project: SKY ten young Cyprus based dancers have been invited to co-create a dance performance with the aim to explore their personal/spatial boundaries and the physical limits of the body in relation with the whole ensemble.

Choreography/Performance: Belinda Papavasiliou, Katerina Tylliridou, Panos Malactos, Andria Michaelidou, Zoe Eleftheriou, Christianna Eftychiou, Kyriakos Ierodiakonou, Maria Kasapi, Georgia Constantinou (Clark), Maria GerasimouConcept/Curation: Alexis VassiliouSound Design: Elena SavvidouProduction: Dance House Lemesos

Pose sittings │ 19:00-21:00

3&4/10 10:00-19:00 Suzana PhialasPhotography Installation Limassol Municipal Arts Centre – Papadakis Warehouses

Seven bodybuilding poses were applied on the bodies of seventeen people from within various occupations, age and body types. The body is always centered and placed fully inside the frame, always shot from the same height and distance and in the same lighting conditions so as to avoid any distractions from the pose. This photographic inventory of same poses displayed together side by side results in infinite possibilities of photographic compositions to serve as a study of the pose for a new performance piece.‘Pose sittings’ considers the act of posing and the obsession with the self-image within thesocieties of digital culture. External stereotypical images which are exposed over and overthrough social media profiles, commercials, and so on, have become an influence (manytimes unconscious) of our view of what is acceptable and desirable. The need for uniformity,the ideal model and the obsession with the self-image seems to be the main goal that getsadopted within the societies of digital culture so as to pump up popularity and likes.Thinking that we choose “normality” we may discover that this normality may be anunnatural dystopian image required as part of digital culture and which shapes the way weinteract, behave, and communicate in a digital social environment.

Concept │creation│photography: Suzana PhialasStudio lighting │advisor: Pavlos VrionidesMentoring: Rodia VomvolouSitters exhibition photos:Eleftheria Sokratous, George Phialas, Despina Michaelidou, Giannis Ioannou, Demetra FialaPrints: Vassos Stylianou - 6x6 Centre Of Photography

Fountains of Mojitos │ 20:30 Evie Demetriou Live performanceTechnochoros ETHAL

“Fountains of Mojitos” explores how four dancers, four women, four friends, four mothers share their intimacies with each other: how they experience their sexuality, their pregnancies, their changing bodies and the wide range of emotions these evoke from shame to pleasure; from silent awkwardness to extravert explosions of laughter; from timid self- explorations over sensual or assertive encounters to joyful celebrations of togetherness.Concept │ Choreography: Evie Demetriou

In collaboration with performers: Rania Glymitsa, Milena Ugren Koulas,Julia Brendle, Eleftheria Socratous

Dramaturgy: Guy Cools

Lighting Design: Aleksandar Jotovic

Styling: Kristia Michaelidou

Technical Support: Antis Iakovou

Photography: Pavlos Vrionides

Sponsored by Terpsihori Programme 2019 of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport andYouth 2019Supported by Dance House LemesosProduction: En drasi 2019

03/10/2020

Performing the New Artistic Development Programme - Moving The New 2020. Final presentations of the work in progress by the artists in residence. Programme’ s Mentor: Rodia Vomvolou

Live presentations Limassol Municipal Arts Center – Papadakis Warehouses

The only thing that matters is how much you love │15:00-18:00Petros Konnaris

An artistic research about motherhood and what it means for a queer man in Cyprus tobecome one. A recording, an embodiment, and a representation of various mothering acts, fears, and social concerns. Images, words, and everyday acts filtered through sensitivity, gentleness and care. A three hour performance of thoughts and wishes, gifs and emojis, cooking and,knitting, and rocking an imaginary baby.

Concept │Performance: Petros Konnaris

18:00-19:00 Once there was a forest (part of the project Object Animated) Konstantina SkaliontaIf we look closely at the materials we choose to use and surround ourselves with, what will they reveal about ourselves, our history and the world we live in today? The work is based on the multi-disciplinary research project “Object Animated” which focuses on ways of animating materials and how these can be used as extensions of the performing human body.Choreography│ Performance: Konstantina SkaliontaΜusic performance: Dimitris SavvaΑudiovisual artist: Artemis EvlogimenouMentoring│ Dramaturgy: Rodia VomvolouMaterial advice │ Outside eye: Laura EliasPhoto: Christos Makris

Endlessly EndlessKalia Maliali'Endlessly Endless' is a solo work created and performed by Kalia Maliali; questioning, embodying and connecting different identities and narratives through her personal experiences in a conditioned world. From recalling childhood experiences to her migratory endeavors to Asia; she moves through time from fantasy to play. This solo is a female’s journey between the imagined and the outer- on sexuality, art, romantic break ups, illness, and dreams."After diving into my healing process, a new dimension of physical awareness, vivid visions and memories have opened up to me. In those states, I find myself remembering and reclaiming forgotten parts of my being- topographies, unknown to me- in ancestral forms and symbols."Concept │Performance │Text: Kalia Maliali

Warrior│ 19:00 Anne Mareike – HessScreeningLimassol Municipal Arts Centre – Papadakis WarehousesMy enemy is my fearAnd it takes my breath awaySo I call to fight with love, open up my heartI call you to fight with love, open up your heartSeduced by the belief that a fierce strongman, is all we need to get things done and save the world, choreographer Anne-Mareike Hess takes us in her solo on a journey of becoming a warrior. Within a distorted and at the same time soft soundscape emerges a profoundly poetic image of human fragility and inner disruption. A dancing body caught in a perpetual fight with its emotions.Choreography │ Dance: Anne-Mareike HessSound design: Marc LohrCostume: Mélanie PlanchardLight design: Brice DurandDramaturgy: Thomas SchauppArtistic advice: Rosalind GoldbergVocal coach: Joséphine EvrardProduction: utopic productionsCoproduction: Centre Culturel de Rencontre Abbaye de Neumünster, Weld, SkogenSupport: Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois - TROIS C-L, Ministère de la Culture Luxembourg, Fonds culturel national Luxembourg, Fondation Indépendance, The Swedish Arts Grants CommitteeResidencies: Dancehouse Melbourne (AUS), Skogen (SE), O espaço do Tempo Montemor-O-Novo (PT)With the support of the Grand Luxe network 2017-2019; Since 2020 utopic productions is supported by the Ministry of Culture Luxembourg

Unauthorised │20:30 Iris KarayanLive performanceTechnochoros ETHALA compilation of web based materials – pop video clips, YouTube videos - are appropriated, cut up and rehashed into a new composition. Unauthorised attempts to challenge the obstinate physicality of the body and disappear in abstract identification. Looking closer at some ways in which the body is represented, performed and mediated in sports and pop culture, the work builds into a live collage of physical enactments and performances. Unauthorised is a choreographic score that mixes movement phrases selected from pop video clips, footage from Muhammad Ali’s boxing fights, John McEnroe’s tennis games, and Northern soul dance moves. Appropriating dance styles, pop, sports and social icons, the idea is to copy, mutate and reframe these images in an attempt to explore the dynamics and rules of representation of the body. Studying the intention and drive, the rhythm and energy of the cited moves, the focus is to look closer at the ways through which subjectivity is produced a