The documentary BOW- Bodies of Work is based on a five-day intensive training program organized by Dance House Lemesos’ in October of 2019, supported by the Cultural Services-Cyprus Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth and developed in collaboration with BJCEM – Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean.

During the intensive workshop, participants were introduced to specific creative and research tools and were encouraged to develope artistic discourses that allow them to articulate the question of embodiment: how social bodies, laboring bodies, political bodies which are put “to work” in performance are able to mirror the complex relationships between subjectivities in motion and their environments? The activities of the workshops were rooted in a social and geopolitical understanding of the bodies and their mobility. In this perspective, we took a look at how geographical, social, artistic boundaries are affected, transformed, through the constant shift and relocation of the bodies in a possible transnational space.

BOW participants:

Milka Delibasic, Hamid Waheed, Eleftheria Panousi, Enrico Floriddia, Christy el Khoury, Christos Mouchas, Konstantinos Kotsis, Ahmad Al Rayyan, Corinne Mazzoli, Michael Scerbo, Korallia Stergides.

Artistic Director/Curator/Mentor: Alexis Vassiliou

Mentors: Lia Haraki and Arkadi Zaides

Artistic Advisors: Simone Frangi and Alessandro Castiglioni

Music: Yiannis Christofides

The premiere of the film will took place on May 20th 2021 within the frame of DIGITAL SWAMP: EXPANDED PUBLIC PROGRAM

SCHOOL OF WATERS – MEDITERRANEA 19 YOUNG ARTISTS BIENNALE