FLUX NOW: STAGE ONE

28-30.04.2025
ΦΙΑΤ
97 Falirou street, Koukaki

Doors open: 19:30
Performances start: 19:45

On the occasion of the International Dance Day Flux Laboratory in collaboration with Metaneira present Flux Now: Stage One, a platform supporting choreographic experimentation that emerged during the course of the Flux School.

Flux School is a program created to offer young dancers the opportunity to extend their dance education through classes, seminars, and participation in educational and artistic activities.

During the three-day event, the work We Are Deeply Sorry to Inform You by Natalia Kalogeropoulou will be presented, along with three works that engage in dialogue with performance and visual arts by Christos Tzavaras and Maria Kasidokosta, Tzini Sakaloglou, and Ilia Koukouzeli. At the same time, Flux Laboratory invites contemporary dancer Enorah Schwaar from Switzerland to present her first solo performance.

Detailed three-day schedule

19:45 | Silent Disco | Ilia Koukouzeli
20:15 | Cage of Lilies | Tzini Sakaloglou
20:45 | Eclypsis | Christos Tzovaras and Maria Kasidokosta
21:15 | We are deeply sorry to inform you, | Natalia Kalogeropoulou
22:00 | Multiple Reflects | Enorah Schwaar

Why now, why Stage One?

Flux Now: Stage One can be interpreted in two ways: on the one hand, as a shared stage open to various forms of experimentation by emerging dance artists. On the other hand, as the idea of a first stage, a necessary starting point that requires thoughtful support and care to nurture any fresh creative endeavor.

This platform is, therefore, an invitation to get to know the artists who took part in the educational program of Flux Laboratory. This program was created to offer an "extension" to dance studies, providing classes, seminars, and participation in activities designed and carried out in collaboration with other cultural and research institutions in Greece.

The development of Flux Now: Stage One was guided by a core principle: to approach the concept of choreography with an exploratory mindset, one that pushes at its boundaries while also easing the expectations often imposed on emerging creators.

Our aim, therefore, was to encourage directions that are not only grounded in movement research or composition, but also highlight and experiment with different aspects of physicality and qualities of embodied expression. These works may engage in dialogue with other artistic fields, fostering interdisciplinarity, exchange, and intersections with broader cultural practices.

What emerged were diverse styles and creative voices, which, regardless the form, we believe carry the sensitivity and sense of security that every young artist seeks with each step they take.

Information about the works

Silent Disco

Fragments of memory, mental pathways, tender reminiscences, and attempts to "give voice" to moments that remained silent. In "Silent Disco", Ilia Koukouzeli seeks to trace the audibility of her personal past. A room functions metonymically as a "mnemonic stage", a space to bring to the surface what is deeply personal, yet somehow universal. If within silence and stillness one can detect the subtle echoes of an inner resonance, the performer quietly invites us to connect with our acoustic imagination and wander, guided by our own experiences. A room of her own, overlooking the inner world-or as she puts it: "Nothing is truly soundless, not even within silence or stillness. | bring back the moments | lived that no one ever heard."

Choreography C Performance: Ilia Koukouzeli | Set Design: Tose Bakai | Music: BLK CLD
Duration: 15 minutes

Cage of Lilies

The performance Cage of Lilies could be seen as an allegory for the "imperceptible" weight of the gaze. It reflects a web of relationships that forms around the performer, as thought rushes to define what the eye encounters. The performer plays with the gendered dimension of this seemingly "natural" function, while inviting us to follow three essential instructions: to look at them, to hold them, to realise them. The gaze momentarily sustains but also confines; it dominates, but also reveals, through its own vulnerability, the face that watches and is watched. The relationship between audience and performer appears to walk a tightrope, much like the threads used to physically convey this ambiguity. In the end, could the gaze be "bound" by social conventions, destined to blindly reproduce what is socially acceptable? What are the questions that the body adresses within this framework?

Choreography - Performance: Tzini Sakaloglou | Music: Panos Dimitriadis
Duration: 20 minutes

Eclypsis

Originally inspired by the ancient Japanese technique of kintsugi ("golden joinery"), the two performer-creators approach physical contact as a third element that exists between them. A malleable material, continuously shaped by their expressive movements in an attempt to trace their mutual closeness: I support you, I hold you, I move you, I carry you with me, I let you go. In this duet, transitions from one state to another are not meant to emphasize the dominance of one person over the other, but rather to highlight the subtle nuances of the in-between an intermediate state that allows them to physically explore what the title suggests: the way one body intervenes, affecting the luminosity of another, without either ever fully disappearing. Trajectories of bodies in search of a shared destination: the light.

Co-creation C Performance: Christos Tzovaras, Maria Kasidokosta | Music: Nikos Giannios | Stylist: Lazaros Tzovaras | Costume Design: ILAVIA STUDIO
Duration: 18 minutes

We are deeply sorry to inform you,

"How much do I deserve to 'use' the 'language' of art to speak about my personal anguish when outside the dance hall, my beloved 'bubble,' barbarism and decay prevail?" This is a question that Natalia Kalogeropoulou rightly asks. If current events constantly speak of a planet in a state of emergency, can a young dancer, without distraction, pursue her dream? Perhaps this tender, untainted desire within a fading

world is simply naïve, inevitably leading to disillusionment? Though rhetorical, the
above questions permeate this quintet, with the choreographer's voice at times expressing her anxieties in the first person, and at other times letting them become a bodily, fragmented discourse-perhaps a response to our overwhelming everyday lives. The restless gaze of a young dancer and creator attempting to transcribe the 'turmoil' into a movement language, offering a body-graph of the fluctuations of contemporary times.

Choreography: Natalia Kalogeropoulou | Performance C Movement Research: Irini Moraiteli, Eleftheria Sotirhou, Nefeli Kafentarakis, Anastasia Milou, Fotini Moukhtouri | Music: Giannis Kanakis | Voice Coaching: Panos Theodorakopoulos | Costume design: Eleftheria Sotirchou
Duration: 40 minutes

Multiple Reflects

Hypersensitive, clumsy, spontaneous, and energetic: an autobiographical solo exploring the different facets of Enorah. We all have different sides, faces, moods; we often become mirrors for others, reflecting their energy or emotions. Not coincidentally, the performer uses a disco ball to convey this prismatic mood, showing how the body and facial expressions become "images" of what we absorb from the outside. In this multiplication of expressions and emotional states, Enorah invites us to dive into her experience, thus creating different portraits of herself. A unique solo in which the visual aspect is enhanced by the soundscape, possibly hinting at the emotions or moods that the music, in turn, reflects.

Creation and Performance: Enorah Schwaar | Set Design: Nicolas Fournier | Costume Design: Romane Claivaz | Music: Syrinx, CD 137, L.129, Mouvement 3 by Claude Debussy C Bachar Mar-Khalifé, code Inside Out by Conny Janssen Danst, iET Mirror Moon and Democratia by Bachar Mar-Khalifé

Duration: 15 minutes

FLUX NOW: STAGE ONE

Artistic Guidance C Mentoring: Markella Manoliadi, Anastasio Koukoutas
Lighting Design: Ifigenia Gianniou
Sound and Lighting Technician: Vasiliki Kapetanaki
Production Direction: Olga Tsatsouli
Administrative Coordination: Flux Laboratory / Zeta Dimou
Production Coordination: Flux Laboratory / Katerina Kourti, Christina Papadaki
Photography: Spiros Strogilis
Videography: Stefanos Chatzis
Visual Identity: Laure Jaffuel
Communication: Flux Laboratory
Co-Production: Flux Laboratory & Metainira

We would like to thank the ΦΙΑΤ space for their hospitality.

Under the auspices of the Embassy of Switzerland in Greece.