BONES

BONES

The choreographic work BONES explores the relationship between structure, support, and fracture through the human body. The body appears as a living system that continuously adapts to pressure, altering its form in order to endure.

The creative process began with observing the body as a dynamic anatomical structure. In the course of this exploration, trauma also emerged as a material for creation, with memory approached not as something to be overcome, but as something that returns and transforms through the body and artistic practice.

On stage, bodies meet that, carrying their own distortions and histories, create new systems of support and balance. Movement is born from the encounter of these bodies, from their need to support one another, to shift, and to redefine their form.

Through this exploration, relationships emerged. Narratives and traumas were transformed into connection, contact, and expression, creating a choreography where structure, deformation, and survival coexist.

BONES is the second part of the body trilogy Skin – Bones – Heart.

Choreographer’s Note
I am interested in the idea that bodies are not only forms but also archives. That they carry memories—our own and those of others. Family memories, historical memories, collective memories. Things that were spoken and things that remained silent.

In the process of BONES, we wrote texts, poems, and narratives around these memories. Gradually, the words shifted into the body, becoming movement, contact, and relationships. We were interested in studying how bodies meet while already carrying their own fractures. How they support one another, how they shift, how they invent new forms in order to continue existing.

Perhaps, in the end, bones remember what we forget.

Biography
Teti Nikolopoulou is a dancer, dance teacher, physical education teacher, and choreographer. She is a graduate of the Nikis Kontaxaki Professional Dance School and the School of Physical Education and Sport Science in Athens (PhD and Master’s degree in Physical Education, specializing in Somatics practices and contact improvisation). She has attended dance and contact improvisation seminars with important teachers and has been dancing and choreographing since 1992.

She has collaborated with choreographers, directors, musicians, and visual artists, and has participated in international dance platforms and festivals. In addition to working as a physical education teacher in public education, she teaches contemporary dance, improvisation, and contact improvisation in both professional and amateur dance schools. She also gives lectures, writes articles, and conducts workshops and seminars on somatics practices.

She has taught contact improvisation at international festivals of the practice in Freiburg, Halkidiki, Istanbul, and Bristol. Since 2017, in collaboration with Zoe Chatzidaki and the Anima-Soma dance group, her work has been supported by the Greek Ministry of Culture, while she also organizes free training workshops for dancers in contact improvisation and the Axis Syllabus in collaboration with Timos Zechas.

Duration: 45 minutes
Suitable for ages 10 and above