“Dancing with Physics: Together Apart”(2024-2025)/Young Audiences

It is this grounding of my feet on the earth that allows me to move forward, that allows me to reach you. To touch you, to embrace you, to push you, to pull you, to support you, to stop you. And perhaps all these actions lead to a sense of intimacy between us, sometimes even to a kind of erosion. But I want you to hold me, because I might fall. And if you want, afterward, we can dance together. Fast, slow, powerfully, or lightly. Because it is this resistance offered by the force of friction that allows us to move as we wish. And perhaps this is a form of freedom. What do you say?

Choreography, Dramaturgy: Stella Fotiadi  

Study, Research: Stella Fotiadi, Panagiotis Pantidos

Performance, Co-Creation: Anna Anousaki, Petros Nikolidis, Xenia Stathouli, Anastasia Valsamaki

Original Music Composition: Nefeli Stamatogiannopoulou  

Video: Vasia Anagnostopoulou

Photography: Spiros Stroggilis  

Under the auspices and with the financial support of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, the support of Flux Laboratory Athens and the Department of Early Childhood Education (DECE) of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA).

The performance was created as part of the homonymous artistic and educational program and is aimed at young audiences/schools. The program is utilized for the generation of ideas as part of the dissertation by PhD student Stella Fotiadi in the Department of Early Childhood Education at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (supervisor: Assistant Professor Panagiotis Pantidos).