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Dance Diptych

Who am I today? | C for Clay

Who am I today?

Choreographer Demy Papathanassiou invites audiences into a deeply personal exploration of identity, drawing on the lived experiences of Crips and their relationship to mental health.

Each day in the studio begins with a question: “Who am I today?” From this starting point, the work asks what a Crip or different body can bring to the stage, and whether its mental health is experienced differently from others.

Through movement, reflection, and raw honesty, Who Am I Today? confronts themes of trauma, acceptance, discovery, and personal growth — offering a space for both individual and collective connection.

 

Concept/choreography/performance: Demy Papathanassiou

Composer: Avgoustinos Michalopoulos Stathopoulos

Artistic collaboration: Maria Viniaratou, Maria Koliopoulou

Consultant choreographer: Katerina Gevetzi

Lighting consultant: Thomas Oikonomakos

Residency support: LIMINAL

Production: Prosxima Dance Company

Duration: 27 minutes

Premiere: BeyondDisDance Festival, Synergio Venue, Limassol, January 13, 2024

*Definition of Crip: A term historically used to stigmatize and oppress disabled people. It has been reclaimed by some disabled people. It should only be used with permission from the community or individual to whom it refers. For the choreographer, it is a political statement rejecting the normative.

C for Clay

A solo work choreographed for and with the performer Vivi Christodoulopoulou exploring notions of labor and action as two components of human existence and their interrelation towards a revelation and a human transformation. 

 

Choreography: Maria Koliopoulou 

Performer: Vivi Christodoulopoulou

Sound design: Yiannis Isidorou 

Dramaturgy consultant: Betina Panagiotara

 Artistic collaborator: Mariza Vinieratou

Light design: Thomas Economacos 

Photo: Loukas Stavrou

Production: Prosxima Dance Company

Duration: 20 minutes

Premiere: Deree Black Box Theatre, 2016, Athens, as part of the series of ONE-OFF DANCE[S] #2 

Further presentations: Theater Aan Het Spui, Den Haag, Netherlands as part of Danceable#3, Holland Dance Festival 2019, where it has been supported by Onassis Stegi, in the context of the European network Europe Beyond Access, which is co-funded by the “Creative Europe” program. 

The work is further developed and presented during the BeyondDisDance at Polychoros Synergeio, Limassol 8.12.2024. Creative Accessibility Tools Applied with the collaboration of liminal.

 

 

The Dance Diptych was presented at the 1st Festival of the Equal Access Unit of the University of Patras, "The Art of Diversity," on May 27, 2025 and at the 12ο Mpart Festival in Larisa, on 11 September 2025.