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October, 2nd | 20.30h | Flesh
 Participation at BDP 2009 - supported by National Centre for Dance and Full House PromotionIs there a human relationship without taking on a role? In every human connection a convention occurs between two people. This requires that one will position itself in relation to the other. The strong and the weak, the male and the female. Someone could offer respect while the other asks for ill-treatment. A coexistence by nature creates a certain dynamics.
Influenced by the religious ceremony of marriage, “Flesh" is questioning the possibility of this union, and the contradictory term of unity. Can the 2 become 1? Can they coexist? Or is there only one left in the end? Who decides that the man will take on the male role and the woman the female role? And finally, within this role playing game, what is male and what is female?
Ioanna Portolou and Griffon dance co.
She studied Fine Arts at Central St. Martin’s School of Arts (BA) and Slade School of Fine Art (ΜΑ). She took up a two-year choreography course at Laban Centre, London. In the year of 2000, she founded Griffon dance co, with which she had a constant cooperation with the Notos Theatre Group in Athens, Greece and had the opportunity to perform at great theatres and dance festivals in England (The Place Theatre, Jackson’s Lane Theatre- London, Leap Dance Festival -Liverpool), in Germany (Internationale Tanzmesse, Duesseldorf), in Egypt (Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria), in Macedonia (3rd Balkan Dance Platform), and in Greece (Kalamata International Dance Festival, Dance Month in Thessaloniki, Greek Dance Platform, etc).
Since 2007, the company manages its own dance studio (in the centre of Athens) in which it runs rehearsals, classes and seminars, as well as produces and presents its work.
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