COYOTE, WE USED TO BE HUMANS

The choreographer Spyros Kouvaras and the contemporary dance group, Synthesis 748 Dance Co., after the residencies in Paris and Montpellier and the first, open studio, presentation of the work, “COYOTE, we used to be humans”, at the International Choreographic Center AGORA of Montpellier Danse, return to Athens for the premiere and four more performances, at PLYFA Industrial Park.

Post-anthropocentrism negates the hierarchy of species and the idea of an intentional and sovereign creature. Into the ontological void thus opened, other species gallop in… (Rosi Braidotti)

Starting from the philosophical, transhumanist, considerations of Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti, the choreographer creates a (meta)mythological, performative, environment, within which the individual is no longer considered as an anthropomorphic entity, but as a relationship and as an articulation between humanity and animality, between culture and nature. The work visualizes a hagiographed ecosystem, between archetype, memory and utopian impulse and invites us to imagine the world as the temporary result of the gradual integration of its heterogeneous elements, as a “pluriverse”. On stage, a coming community seems to emerge, a community that does not exist according to any clear temporality but emerges as a choreographic fantasy upon which bodies, as exposed singularities, are “connected” together by an invisible thread, beginning a final dance, a little before man turned into a multiplanetary being.

The performance is sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Sports for 2021-2023, is a co-production of AGORA-International Choreographic Center of Montpellier Danse and was created with the support of CND-French National Dance Center in Paris and Center Culturel Hellénique.