ATMA

 ATMA

Is there anything more malleable than the human body? Dance is the art that concerns itself with the body's transformations, that is interested in our ability both to view the body in poetic ways and to contemplate the human condition through it.

Danae and Dionysios experiment with that most familiar of tools: the body. They explore its fragility but also its endurance, using movement as a means of conveying transformations into and back out of whatever constitutes the natural origins of humankind, whatever has been effaced by culture.

In "ATMA", a series of themes selected for their power to move and sensitize audiences are made visual by the two artists. The bestial is contrasted with the human, the Apollonian with the Dionysian, not so as to create yet another unbridgeable dualistic divide, but rather to incorporate two conflicting aspects into one single nature – for it is the very complementarity of opposing elements that characterises the totality of humankind.

- Anastasio Koukoutas for Onassis Cultural Centre

"And suddenly the cloister of the dead of San Isidoro del Campo is filled with nature. "Atma" is a very interesting choreography by some young performers from whose country we know already established choreographers. That is why it is very good to know what the young creators of the Mediterranean country, the cradle of philosophy, are doing. A country in which dance, as they themselves said, «fights and survives». But yes, it survives with quality works like this, which is not little".

- ABC de Sevilla review

16Creative Team

Choreography - Performance : Danae & Dionysios

Music : Constantine Skourlis

Costume Design: Vaya Nikolakopoulou

Light Design : Llorenç Parra, Panagiotis Manousis

With the support of : Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens

Concert Hall, Municipal Theatre of Piraeus, Big Story

Productions, L'Estruch Fabrica de Creatio, ONE DANCE

WEEK and Centre Civic Barceloneta.