Dance Lab is a non profit organization founded in 2008. Every year we organize
- Dance waves international dance festival /Bridges over the waves (EFFE label 2024/2025 )
- -Moving Images videodance festival (presenting videodance films from all over the world)
- -D.A.I.R - Dance Artists In Residency .Inviting mostly local emerging artists but also emerging artists from abroad to create, explore and share their works in open rehearsals, discussions and present a final performance if they wish.
- -Dance Lab Youth Company 14 ANΩ- members join through auditions every year and work every week with talented Cypriot dancers, teachers , choreographers to create one performance each year.
D.A.I.R 2024 Dance Artists In Residency
DANCE WAVES FESTIVAL 2023
18/11/2023
*BREATH WITH ME A MOMENT by Or Marin - Performers Uri Dicker and Tomer Giat (scouted from RIDCC)
*CLAY by Rebecca Laufer and Mats van Rossum (scouted from RIDCC)
*Simply Something Somewhere Else by Cassandra Arnmark(scouted from Solo Tanz Theater Stuttgart)
*miTerra by Eva Georgitsopoulou
25/11/2023
*MEGASTRUCTURE by Isaiah Wilson and Sarah Baltzinger (scouted and BIG winners of RIDCC 2023)
*Ana(podi) by Loizos Constantinou, Performer Zoe Eleftheriou (Cyprus)
*Bubble consumer by Ioannis Economides, Performers Anna Nicolaou, Ioannis Economides (Cyprus)
*Dead Mouse by MIlena Ugren Koulas, Performers Chris Mills and Apollo Anastasiades
ON THE MOVE Pre-premiere 10/12/2023
Idea,choreography,direction - Elena Christodoulidou
In creation with Nicole Yiannaka, Maria Masonou,Vivi Christodoulopoulou, Andreas Kouzelis.
Manuals/workshops co-ordinator Antonis Skordilis
Scenography,costumes Eleni Ioannou
Music- Haris Sophocleous
Lighting designer-Alex Jotovic
Photos Ioanna Sinclair
Printouts design Elena Armosti
*BREATH WITH ME A MOMENT by Or Marin - Performers Uri Dicker and Tomer Giat (scouted from RIDCC)
*CLAY by Rebecca Laufer and Mats van Rossum (scouted from RIDCC)
*Simply Something Somewhere Else by Cassandra Arnmark(scouted from Solo Tanz Theater Stuttgart)
*miTerra by Eva Georgitsopoulou
25/11/2023
*MEGASTRUCTURE by Isaiah Wilson and Sarah Baltzinger (scouted and BIG winners of RIDCC 2023)
*Ana(podi) by Loizos Constantinou, Performer Zoe Eleftheriou (Cyprus)
*Bubble consumer by Ioannis Economides, Performers Anna Nicolaou, Ioannis Economides (Cyprus)
*Dead Mouse by MIlena Ugren Koulas, Performers Chris Mills and Apollo Anastasiades
ON THE MOVE Pre-premiere 10/12/2023
Idea,choreography,direction - Elena Christodoulidou
In creation with Nicole Yiannaka, Maria Masonou,Vivi Christodoulopoulou, Andreas Kouzelis.
Manuals/workshops co-ordinator Antonis Skordilis
Scenography,costumes Eleni Ioannou
Music- Haris Sophocleous
Lighting designer-Alex Jotovic
Photos Ioanna Sinclair
Printouts design Elena Armosti
Bridges over the waves presenting Elish by Tamar Borer
ELISH
A performance by Tamar borer
in collaboration with Bar Eran , Yael Ben Shalom
ELISH seeks to present different perspectives on the same shared reality:
The performance presents a world within a world, both empower, complement and are vital to each other.The image that accompanies the work, both poetic and scientific, is the life cycle of metal. A cycle that begins as stardust in space, slowly dropped on and into the ground. There, it turns into
mineral crystals that slowly erode, and finally, rise back up to space as dust.On stage, various types of metals in different configurations are spread, hung and laid on the ground.
Tamar Borer's performance reflects constant transformation moves, a kind of a journey on earth,between metal crystals, coal particles, stardust and lava surfaces. It represents the human gaze on the layered reality. A reality, which she explores while stretching the boundaries of body and voice, and which, combined with the multi-faceted material installation becomes a world that is in constant metamorphosis.The world created by the performance and the materials of the installation on stage is documented with live video by Yael Ben Shalom and projected in a closed circle, in a vertical inversion. At the same time, Ben Shalom operates objects in real time, such as water in a glass bowl, powders and lanterns, to create changing landscapes using the cameras' extreme close up lens.
The musician Bar Eran weaves rich and complex sound surfaces. She uses field and voice recordings, manipulates feedback between microphones and speakers, taps on various metal
objects, sings and plays the violin.The name "Elish" is taken from the Babylonian creation story (Anuma Elish - Babylonian: When from Above), which was discovered between Nineveh antiquities in 1849 on clay tablets.The sculpture created by the sculptor Avinoam Sternheim, is made of remnants of stanza and depreciation of ready-made metal objects. The sculpture symbolizes a focal point for observingfrom above what is happening below. An ancient epic perspective on things as they occur today.
DANCE WAVES 2023
DANCE WAVES 2022
Moving Bodies /Moving Images videodance festival
