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3rd Cyprus Choreography Showcase - Day 3

Updated: Sep 25

The 3rd Cyprus Choreography Showcase (CYC) which is co-organized by the Deputy Ministry of Culture - Department of Contemporary Culture and the Rialto Theater drops curtain with four choreographic works that have been created during the past 2 years. The viewer will have the opportunity to live a different experience closer to the performers since one show will be presented in Theater Square and three On Stage.


29/09/2024, 18:00

Elena Antoniou - LANDSCAPE (16+), 51´


Poet Charles Wright characteristically notes: “All landscapes are autobiographical.” In LANDSCAPE, Elena Antoniou treats her body as a landscape. In his notes to the performer, dramaturge Odysseas I. Konstantinou writes: “You stick your butt out, you deliver your most erotic moves, you breathe, you get tired. And you are being seen and observed. And you want to be seen. And you want to be observed. And you expose yourself. And you have asked to be exposed. And that’s how you give what you’ve got, your body, primarily as something sexual. You have conceived this performance, and you are going through it. You think you are the one completing it, but you are not.” Indeed, the gaze of each viewer/observer and, respectively, the proximity or distance from which they choose to observe the body/spectacle of Elena Antoniou are the elements that complete the work. She unapologetically offers herself to the disclosure of personal experience as a collective landscape. She joyously overexposes the female body and challenges the outer limits of spectacle by skillfully inviting and provoking the viewer’s gaze. She instigates the space for the political body to present itself as deeply traumatised but also unabashedly sexual.


Elena Antoniou graduated with honours from the Greek National School of Dance and the London Contemporary Dance School “The Place” as a member of the Edge dance company. She was a scholarship recipient from the Koula Pratsika Foundation and the Danceweb Programme at ImpulsTanz Vienna. She has presented her work in Florence, Athens, Berlin, and Tel Aviv and has collaborated with significant organisations, such as the Onassis Stegi, the Marina Abramovic Institute (MAI), NEON Organisation for Culture & Development, and the Athens and Epidaurus Festival. Since 2021, she has been collaborating as a performer with internationally renowned choreographer Maria Hassabi. In addition, she has also collaborated as a choreographer and movement director with theatre directors and companies in Greece and Cyprus. She received the Choreography Award of the Cyprus Theatre Awards for the play Diary of a Madman (Cyprus Theatre Organisation), and she has been nominated for the same award in 2011 for the play Beckettx5 by theatre group Solo for Three.


Conceived, Choreographed & Performed by: Elena Antoniou

Music & Sound Design: Stavros Gasparatos

AE Direction: Christos Kyriakides

Dramaturgy: Odysseas I. Konstantinou

Lighting Design: Vasilis Petinaris

Hairstyle: Angelos Pattas

Production Coordination: Alex Papasimakopoulou (International), Loukia Vassiliou

Photo Credit: Andreas Simopoulos


LANDSCAPE is supported by Onassis Stegi's “Outward Turn” Programme



29/09/2024, 19:30Diamanto Hadjizacharia - a dance for the end of the world, 22´


It’s the end of the world and I’m dancing in a basement / I walk the streets at dawn / everyone’s a friend on a Sunday morning / it’s the end of the world and I can’t wait / I expect nothing / less than everything / it’s the end of the world and I haven’t managed to finish a single book / I’m still looking at the screen / it’s the end of the world and I’m getting nowhere / safe / or even familiar / it’s the end of the world and I still don’t know how to dance / I’m free at last / it’s the end of the world / and the beginning of our lives. It’s the end of the world but not for us.


Diamanto Hadjizacharia (Limassol, 1997) graduated as a contemporary dancer from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, and as a choreographer from Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD). She is currently attending the Master’s programme “Performance Practices” at AnEZ University of the Ans. As a performer, she has collaborated with choreographers Hofesh Shechter, Hagit Yakira, James Finnemore, Maria Kamberis, and Elena Christodoulidou. Some of her mentors were Sabina Holzer (AT), Patricia Apergi (GR), Pavlos Kountouriotis (NL), Mary Nunan (IE) and Dara Milovanovic (CY). Her artistic practice challenges conventional approaches to anmaking in an attempt to explore and redefine its boundaries. Her choreographic works were presented at festivals in Portugal, Greece, the UK, and Cyprus.


Choreography: Diamanto Hadjizacharia

Performance: Areti Chourdaki, Elina Karacosta, Julie Charalambidou

Assistant Choreographer: Marita Anastasi

Original Music Composition: Marcos Shukuroglou

Lighting Design: Panayiotis Manousis

Photos: Andreas Nikolaou



29/09/2024, 20:00Alexis Vassiliou - THIRAMA (18+) 45´


In his new work ΤΗΙRAMA, Alexis Vassiliou continues the research he began in 2020 with the creation of the short film entitled ΕΓΚΑΤΑ (EGATA) and the performance SAKRA in 2022, attempting once again to reconstruct a rhythmic, acoustic, and bodily ritual on the origins of language, emotions and the human experience.


Alexis Vassiliou was born in 1978 (Cyprus). He studied Dance at Trinity-Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, UK (Diploma in Dance Studies), Music at the University of East Anglia, UK (Β.Α in Music), and Composition of Music for Films and Theatre at the University of Bristol, UK (MA). In 2008, he received a scholarship (Dance-Web) as part of the 25th ΙmpulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival. During 2012 and 2013, he was selected to participate (artistic residency) in two European programmes (E-motional Bodies and Cities and Act Your Age). In 2014, with his work Please Be Gentle, Alexis was selected in the final twenty artists of the Aerowaves network. He directed and choreographed various works that were presented at festivals locally and abroad. From 2016 until October 2023, he was the general and artistic director of Dance House Lemesos. In October 2023, he was appointed as the deputy director of Rialto Theatre.


Concept, Direction, Choreography: Alexis Vassiliou

Performers: Arianna Marcoulides, Loukia Pieridou, Βianca Casaburi, Rafael Candela, Huben Mielke

Music Score Composition/Development: Alexis Vassiliou

Music Composition-Instrumentation & Sound Design: Marianna Michael

Voice Coach: Cοnstantine Andronikou

Lighting Design: Aleksandar Jotovic

Photos: Stelios Kallinikou

Graphic Design: Philippos Vassiliades


Μain Sponsor: Department of Contemporary Culture, Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Culture

Production: Nothing to Declare


29/09/2024, 21:00

Panos Malactos - Are you OKAY? 58´


Instead of a title, Panos Malactos asks the simple but at the same time so hard, almost provocative, question: “ARE YOU OKAY?”. Opening the labyrinthine chapter of mental health, with queer boldness and, at the same time, genuine sensitivity, the piece is based on the personal stories of the dancers, the choreographer, and the audience, interweaving them with the culture of rave parties, techno music and with the aesthetic references that have shaped the choreographer’s artistic identity to this day.


Panos Malactos (born in Cyprus, 1994) has been working with Peeping Tom in Belgium since 2020. At the age of 17, he moved to London to study Musical Theatre with a scholarship (Dance and Drama Award) at the Bird College. He then continued his training at the Ramben School where he obtained his “BA Degree in Ballet and Contemporary Dance”. After graduating, he moved to Israel to work with Fresco Dance Company and spent some time with Inbal Dance Theatre working with the choreographers Mor Shani and Noa Shadur. In 2019, he joined a collaboration between the Festspielhaus St. Pölten in Austria and Batsheva Dance Company, performing Deca Dance by Ohad Naharin and a new creation Ballroom by Shahar Binyamini. Panos also worked with KENZO Paris (FR), Compagnie Tabea Manin (CH), Liliana Barros (DE), Jason Mabana Dance (UK), Emma Evelein Dance (NL), X-it Dance Theatre (CY/GR), Milena Ugren Koulas (CY), Asomates Dynamis Dance Company (CY), Andre Uerba (DE), and collaborated multiple times with Greek director Elias Adam as a performer and choreographer. His choreographic works have traveled to New Zealand and all over Europe.


Choreographer: Panos Malactos

Performers: Apollonas Anastasiades, Styliana Apostolou, Magda Argyridou, Chris Mills, Tzini Sakaloglou, Melina Sofocleous

Dramaturge: Ody Icon

Music Producer: Die Arkitekt

Costume Designer: Orestis Lazouras

Lighting Designer: Vasilis Petinaris

Produced by: Nea Kinisi



Organisers: Deputy Mistry of Culture – Department of Contemporary Culture and Rialto Theatre

Hospitality Sponsor: Alinea

Media Sponsors: Fileleutheros, CYBC 

Supported by: Dance House Lemesos, Dance House Lefkosia, Νέα Κίνηση, Lemesos Newspaper, Limassol Today, Limmasol Tourism Board, Russian Radio Cyprus, Lenta Cyprus, Vestnik Kipra


Tickets: € 8 Limited seats please secure tickets early 

E-ticket: www.rialto.com.cy 

Ταμείο: 77 77 77 45 (Monday – Friday 10:00 -15:00)



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